Re: Tkinter menus made easy

Guilherme Polo wrote: > there is a > gui designer tool for tkinter called GUI Designer (what a bad name), > which used to be called SpecTcl, where you can design the menus and it > then converts to python code. I tried it. after about 10 minutes I was as far as "help not found." Is anyone out t

Re: Tkinter menus made easy

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > menudef = """ > File > New,callNew,Ctrl-N > New Window, callNewWindow, Ctrl-Shift-N > __ > Open, lambda e=0:para(1), Ctrl-O Nice design. I looked at it for a few seconds and didn't even think about pressing F1. Mine does

Strong/weak typing

I'm writing Python as if it were strongly typed, never recycling a name to hold a type other than the original type. Is this good software engineering practice, or am I missing something Pythonic? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

import statement convention

By convention, I've read, your module begins with its import statements. Is this always sensible? I put imports that are needed for testing in the test code at the end of the module. If only a bit of the module has a visual interface, why pollute the global namespace with 'from Tkinter import *'?

Re: import statement convention

Thanks, all. Good to know no one's been beheaded. Yes to separating test and non-test code, but no if that will just turn one modest module into two modules, smaller still. Amen to 'practicality beats purity.' Do wish we had a good, thorough convention set. I wrote one for Java. It took a lot o

Python conventions

I assembled a good conventions set for Java. View it at http://www.martinrinehart.com/articles/code-conventions.html (is that better, Steve?) It followed a logical organization; it was built from four other extensive (if not well-organized) convention sets and it scrupulously avoided injecting my

Re: Python conventions

Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > I'm sorry to disappoint you but this project has already been completed: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ Daniel, PEP 8 is anything but complete. How much of the following simple question can you answer from there: Given that you can name things with Upper

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