On 20 September 2017 at 17:16, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:58:47 -0700 (PDT), John Ladasky > <john_lada...@sbcglobal.net> declaimed the following: > >> >>And of course I have found some other third-party packages: scipy, pandas, >>matplotlib, and PyQt5 are important for my work. I helped a student of mine >>get selenium running. In the case of PyQt, I found TKinter unsatisfactory >>many years ago, and went looking for better choices. I used wxPython first, >>when I was working in Py2. When wxPython was slow to migrate to Py3, I went >>searching again. >> > > And if wxPython had been part of the stdlib, it would have meant > Python > 3 would have been delayed years until wxPython had been ported -- or > wxPython would have been pulled from the stdlib and something else put in > its place... > > So no help to those migrating.
If wxPython had been part of the stdlib, there would be much more manpower to port it to 3. Also, the project underwent a complete rewrite, which dooms many projects to failure. Perhaps they wouldn’t try the rewrite, or they would port the older codebase to Python 3 so that it could be shipped. (They’re currently at Beta 2 of the post-rewrite 4.0.0 version.) -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
