Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-29 Thread pecore
Roy Smith writes: > In article <87mwbtjg9r@pascolo.net>, pec...@pascolo.net wrote: > >> >> 2. Python 2 or 3? Which will serve me better in the future? >> > >> > Long term (7 years), [Python] 3. >> >> I have STRONG suicidal intent and no access to treatment, >> should I better learn Python 2?

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-28 Thread Roy Smith
In article <87mwbtjg9r@pascolo.net>, pec...@pascolo.net wrote: > >> 2. Python 2 or 3? Which will serve me better in the future? > > > > Long term (7 years), [Python] 3. > > I have STRONG suicidal intent and no access to treatment, > should I better learn Python 2? In that case, go with PHP.

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-28 Thread pecore
>> 2. Python 2 or 3? Which will serve me better in the future? > > Long term (7 years), [Python] 3. I have STRONG suicidal intent and no access to treatment, should I better learn Python 2? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-27 Thread CM
On Thursday, July 24, 2014 11:57:22 AM UTC-4, Noble Bell wrote: > I am exploring the idea of creating my next desktop GUI project in Python and > would like a little advice from you folks about a couple of requirements. > > > > My requirements will be: > > 1. Needs to be portable across platfo

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-25 Thread Sturla Molden
Zachary Ware wrote: > How so? Like any other facet of programming, using Tk(inter) has it's > frustrations, but for the most part it has always worked as expected > for me. Granted, I haven't done anything terribly fancy. In my experience, tkinter and ttk is fine until you need to do something

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-25 Thread Noble Bell
On Thursday, July 24, 2014 6:35:02 PM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/24/2014 1:04 PM, Chris "Kwpolska" Warrick wrote: > > > > > And it might be better to stay with Python 2, there are still > > > things that don't work with Py3k that you might find crucial. > > > > It is true that there ar

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/24/2014 1:04 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: And it might be better to stay with Python 2, there are still things that don't work with Py3k that you might find crucial. It is true that there are 3rd-party modules that do not work with 3.x, including a few that one might want to use i

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/24/2014 3:11 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote: Not knowing any of these GUI platforms (although I've read some about Tk), I have some questions. * Which of them use UTF-8 as their native Unicode interface? tk uses UCS-2 internally for the BMP subset. It does not display astral chars. tkinter i

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Gregory Ewing
Chris Angelico wrote: The Windows default UI changed significantly from W2K -> XP -> Win8, and each time, it's possible to revert to the old styling; Well, sort of. I find that using the classic theme with Win7 is a less-than-satisfying experience, because it still lays things out the same way

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

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Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/24/2014 10:46 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Noble Bell wrote: >> I was leaning toward Python 3 and Tkinter. I suppose the best way to do the >> GUI with Tkinter is to just roll-up my sleeves and do it via code rather >> than with the aid of a GUI editor. > >

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/24/2014 01:32 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick > wrote: >> AFAIK, Qt follows the system style properly, and it looks quite native >> on every Windows OS. No idea about ttk though. > > My understanding is that Qt merely emulates the native LAF

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/24/2014 12:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Zachary Ware > wrote: >>> On other platforms, it also is not 100% >>> native. >> >> On Windows, at least, ttk comes very very close to it. > > What exactly does that mean? The Windows default UI changed > significant

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-07-24, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Zachary Ware > wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick >> wrote: >>> Tk is neither sane >> >> How so? Like any other facet of programming, using Tk(inter) has it's >> frustrations, but

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/24/2014 01:11 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote: > Not knowing any of these GUI platforms (although I've read some about > Tk), I have some questions. > > * Which of them use UTF-8 as their native Unicode interface? > > * Which makes it easiest to discover and adjust font metrics such as > kernin

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-07-24, Zachary Ware wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick > wrote: >> Tk is neither sane > > How so? Like any other facet of programming, using Tk(inter) has it's > frustrations, but for the most part it has always worked as expected > for me. Granted, I hav

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Rob Gaddi
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Noble Bell wrote: > > If I were to us wxPython then I would be limited to Python 2.x at present. If > I were to use PyQt I would have to pay, as I understand the licenses, for it > to use in commercial programs and/or programs that I ask for donations. I

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Noble Bell
On Thursday, July 24, 2014 2:32:04 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Chris "Kwpolska" Warrick > > wrote: > > > AFAIK, Qt follows the system style properly, and it looks quite native > > > on every Windows OS. No idea about ttk though. > > > > My understanding is that Q

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: > Pretty much everyone in the world hates Tcl and Tk. Ask your favorite > search engine for some results. Whee, I'm an alien! ;) I'm not saying Tk is the best thing since sliced bread, I just don't see what so many people seem to

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: > AFAIK, Qt follows the system style properly, and it looks quite native > on every Windows OS. No idea about ttk though. My understanding is that Qt merely emulates the native LAF, although it does a good job of it. wxPython on th

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Glenn Linderman
On 7/24/2014 11:15 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 24/07/2014 17:18, Chris Angelico wrote: The first one is certainly possible. Pick any of the well-known toolkits (Tkinter, wxwidgets, GTK, etc), and see how it feels. All of them are portable

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Zachary Ware > wrote: >> On Windows, at least, ttk comes very very close to [a 100% native look]. > > What exactly does that mean? The Windows default UI changed > significantly from W2K -> XP -> Win8, and e

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Zachary Ware wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick > wrote: >> Tk is neither sane > > How so? Like any other facet of programming, using Tk(inter) has it's > frustrations, but for the most part it has always worked as expected > for

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Zachary Ware wrote: >> On other platforms, it also is not 100% >> native. > > On Windows, at least, ttk comes very very close to it. What exactly does that mean? The Windows default UI changed significantly from W2K -> XP -> Win8, and each time, it's possible to r

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: > Tk is neither sane How so? Like any other facet of programming, using Tk(inter) has it's frustrations, but for the most part it has always worked as expected for me. Granted, I haven't done anything terribly fancy. > nor nativ

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-07-24, Zachary Ware wrote: >> The Python standard library includes the tkinter package, which is an >> interface to Tcl/Tk. > > That's not always true for Linux systems. AFAIK, all Linux installs > include Python (of some version o

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 24/07/2014 17:18, Chris Angelico wrote: >> The first one is certainly possible. Pick any of the well-known >> toolkits (Tkinter, wxwidgets, GTK, etc), and see how it feels. All of >> them are portable across the three platforms you name, s

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/07/2014 17:18, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Noble Bell wrote: I am exploring the idea of creating my next desktop GUI project in Python and would like a little advice from you folks about a couple of requirements. My requirements will be: 1. Needs to be portabl

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: > I personally recommend PyQt4/PySide. wxPython is also worth checking out. > And it might be better to stay with Python 2, there are still things that > don't work with Py3k that you might find crucial. Can you be more specific? Py

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
On Jul 24, 2014 6:28 PM, "Zachary Ware" wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Noble Bell wrote: > > I am exploring the idea of creating my next desktop GUI project in Python and would like a little advice from you folks about a couple of requirements. > > > > My requirements will be: > > 1

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Noble Bell wrote: > I was leaning toward Python 3 and Tkinter. I suppose the best way to do the > GUI with Tkinter is to just roll-up my sleeves and do it via code rather than > with the aid of a GUI editor. Yep. In fact, I recommend that for all GUI toolkits; i

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-07-24, Zachary Ware wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Noble Bell wrote: >> I am exploring the idea of creating my next desktop GUI project in Python >> and would like a little advice from you folks about a couple of requirements. >> >> My requirements will be: >> 1. Needs to be

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Noble Bell
On Thursday, July 24, 2014 10:57:22 AM UTC-5, Noble Bell wrote: > I am exploring the idea of creating my next desktop GUI project in Python and > would like a little advice from you folks about a couple of requirements. > > > > My requirements will be: > > 1. Needs to be portable across platfo

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Noble Bell wrote: > I am exploring the idea of creating my next desktop GUI project in Python and > would like a little advice from you folks about a couple of requirements. > > My requirements will be: > 1. Needs to be portable across platforms with native LAF (W

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Noble Bell wrote: > I am exploring the idea of creating my next desktop GUI project in Python and > would like a little advice from you folks about a couple of requirements. > > My requirements will be: > 1. Needs to be portable across platforms with native LAF (

Re: Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread INADA Naoki
1. PyQt (or PySide) 2. Python 2 will be legacy soon. Use Python 3 for new project. wxPython is also good option but doesn't support Python 3 for now. I don't know when wxPhenix (next wxPython supporting Python 3) will be released. On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Noble Bell wrote: > I am explor

Exploring Python for next desktop GUI Project

2014-07-24 Thread Noble Bell
I am exploring the idea of creating my next desktop GUI project in Python and would like a little advice from you folks about a couple of requirements. My requirements will be: 1. Needs to be portable across platforms with native LAF (Windows,Linux,OSX) 2. Python 2 or 3? Which will serve me bette