[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to learn GUI programming in Python, but have to confess I > am finding it difficult.
Don't do it if you can prevent it. GUI - toolkits are very complex beasts and at least to me a source of pain far more as a joy. Python cannot help you making them significantly simpler but on the contrary add just another level of indirection. Python normally shines when you have to glue libraries together or programming simply Python scripts for a broad range of purposes but if the wrapped library publishes a huge interface with hundreds of classes and thousands of methods and attributes the benfit of Pythons abstraction converges to zero. Python does not offer a good toolchain to take up with Swing, WinForms or Qt to name just a few delivered with IDEs that are very helpfull in developing GUI apps. Not to talk about documentation... Conclusion: if you are already familiar with BASIC I would just continue writing BASIC apps using VisualBasic dotNet, Windows Forms as the underlying GUI toolktit and VisualStudio as IDE. Forget the coolness factor of the language. Cool people never care a lot what other people think. If you finally want to glue assemblys/controls together in Python this is still possible with IronPython or Python-dotNet ( which is a CPython binding to the CLR, available at Zope.org ). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
