On 9/3/20 1:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-09-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> [...] >> >> Is pygobject the replacement for pygtk? > > It seems to be. I've started porting my pygtk app, and it's going > pretty smoothly. I've already got my two custom widgets working. > Oddly, the main module provided by the gobject package is called "gi".
It stands for "gobject introspection." The nice thing about the gi module is it can wrap any gobject-based library, not just GTK+ proper. So if someone made a custom widget in Vala, for example, you could access it via gi. It's a neat idea. My only problem with it is the resulting Python API is not always as pythonic as pygtk code was. I can't think of any specific examples at the moment, however. It's pretty much good enough to not care too much. Similar arguments can be made against PyQt as well. Especially with PyQt the end result feels a bit like writing C++ with a python syntax. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
