Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: GUI:-please answer want to learn GUI programming in python , how should i proceed. Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 04:27:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <9f5d28ce-504d-40db-baa2-ff3699ab05c7@googlegroups.com> <20131214180549.59e9831a6faf098b754ea00a@gmx.net> <52ace2c0$0$29992$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <52ade081$0$29976$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1387254475 1112 24.118.110.103 (17 Dec 2013 04:27:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 04:27:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:62149 On 2013-12-16, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2013-12-16, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>> Are there >>> any aggregate types at all? >> >> There are arrays with string keys (similar to Python dictionaries). > > Well... sort of. They can only hold strings, not other arrays. > They're not first-class entities: you can't pass them around > or keep them in local variables; they're always global. (And > there are no modules, so global is *truly* global.) It's worse that I remembered -- I must have repressed most of my Tcl memories. > In short, they're a very poor substitute for having real data > structures. -- Grant