Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!feed.xsnews.nl!border03.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder03.ams.xsnews.nl!abp002.ams.xsnews.nl!frontend-F10-04.ams.news.kpn.nl From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Best GUI for Python Organization: Decebal Computing References: <87h9s311r6.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <553cffc2$0$12998$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87wq0yzw83.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> X-Face: "(y8cC@tg_12{">GF'UXTW]FHI2wMiZNrnf'1EFQ&O#$m:f#O7+7}kR,v+Pti8=Vi/Z"g^?b"E X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 20:07:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87sibmzruh.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QPqPxIXwlmIqykQVtWceNeeav+A= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 51 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.207.62.244 X-Trace: 1430072913 news.kpn.nl 20678 81.207.62.244@kpn/81.207.62.244:33139 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:89426 Op Sunday 26 Apr 2015 19:12 CEST schreef Gary Herron: > On 04/26/2015 09:32 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> Op Sunday 26 Apr 2015 17:09 CEST schreef Steven D'Aprano: >> >>> On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 11:02 pm, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >>> >>>> I want to use a GUI for Python. When searching I found (beside >>>> some others) Tkinter and wxPython. From what I found it looks >>>> like Tkinter is slightly better. What would be the pros/cons of >>>> these two? Would there be a compelling reason to use another GUI? >>> Tkinter is easier to use, as it is standard with Python. So long >>> as you have Tk/Tcl installed on your computer, Tkinter should work >>> fine. >>> >>> However, Tkinter probably looks a bit more old fashioned. >>> >>> wxPython probably looks a bit more modern and may be a bit more >>> powerful, but it will require a large extra library. It's also a >>> lot harder to learn to use wxPython unless you are comfortable >>> with C++ programming. >> Well, I did my share of C++ programming. ;-) >> >> >>> Have you seen this? >>> >>> https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming >> Dabo looks interesting, but also a little bit dead. Well, maybe I >> just should evaluate Tkinter and wxPython both. Now wxPython looks >> more interesting. But it is easier to make a reasonable decision >> when I have a little more information. :-D >> >> For the moment I limit it to Tkinter and wxPython. > > I wouldn't recommend limiting yourself like that. I've used both > successively (years ago), then pyGTK for a batch of projects, > followed by pyglet for some years and many projects, and most > recently PyQt. They are all worthy GUI programming libraries, and > each of them is cross platform (as I required to develop on Linux, > but deploy occasionally on Windows). I did say for the moment. ;-) But just curious: what is the reason you use five different kinds of GUI? It seems like it makes think difficult for you. I mean the question as enlightenment for myself. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof