On Saturday, 20 February 2016 06:58:39 UTC+2, Denis Akhiyarov wrote: > On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 1:49:44 PM UTC-6, wrong.a...@gmail.com > wrote: > > I am mostly getting positive feedback for Python. > > > > It seems Python is used more for web based applications. Is it equally fine > > for creating stand-alone *.exe's? Can the same code be compiled to run on > > Linux or Android or web-based? > > > > Is it possible to create GUI elements with a good IDE? Can they be defined > > like in Visual Basic with given sizes, fonts, visible/invisible, etc.? > > > > Is it easy to do matrix operations in Python? Or do I need to write > > subroutines like in Visual Basic? > > > > Could someone kindly tell me advantages and disadvantages of Python? Or any > > better options? I have like 40-50 VB Forms and may be around 20000 lines of > > code. It will be a task to learn a new language and translate/re-write that > > code. > > > > Thanks for your responses. > > I'm surprised that no one mentioned this tool called vb2py. It looks > outdated, but I actually used it successfully to convert vba code to python, > once all dependencies were installed correctly :) > > http://vb2py.sourceforge.net/ > > You can also understand how vb objects map to python objects. > > vb2py has also minimal support for GUI conversion. > > Someone has even forked it on github recently: > > https://github.com/reingart/vb2py
This will definitely be useful to me in the early phase. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
