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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:28:49 +1200
From: Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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On 15/09/11 06:47, Bill Janssen wrote:

> One possibility would be to develop a PyGUI branch on top of Tk, so that
> it would work with Python anywhere.

Unfortunately, I doubt whether Tk would be up to the task of
supporting PyGUI efficiently. The philosophies of model-view
separation and allowing more than one view of a model are at
odds with the way Tk works.

Anyone who wants to have a go at it is welcome to try,
though.

-- 
Greg