Re: Getting back into PyQt and not loving it.

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On 2016-06-27 02:05, llanitedave wrote:
> On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 2:45:18 PM UTC-7, Michael Torrie wrote:
>> I'm starting to question the advice I gave not long ago to for new users
>> to consider the Qt toolkit with Python.
>>
>> I just did a little project porting a simple graphical user interface
>> from GTK+ to Qt (PyQt4 for now as that's what I have installed).  For
>> the most part it worked out pretty well.  It's been a while since I used
>> PyQt or PySide, and I had forgotten what a horrid Python experience Qt
>> really is, at least in PyQt4.  Maybe the bindings for Qt5 are better...
>> I'll be working with them next as I convert my working code.
>>
>> Qt's a fantastic toolkit, and the most mature of any of them, and the
>> most portable, but man the bindings are not Pythonic at all. PyQt does
>> not seem to hide the C++-isms at all from the programmer.  I am
>> constantly wrapping things up in Qt classes like QRect, QPoint, QSize,
>> etc, when really a python Tuple would have sufficed.  All the data
>> structures are wrapped in Qt C++ classes, so you end up writing what is
>> really idiomatic C++ code using Python syntax. Not the best way to code
>> Python!  Implementing signals in a class, too, reminds you strongly that
>> you're working with C++ as you have to construct their method signatures
>> using types that map back into C++.
>
> Not sure that wxPython is really any different in that respect, and Tkinter doesn't feel Pythonic to me, either -- considering how it's Tk at heart.  So what's the alternative?  There really is no good Python-based GUI tool, and that's a shame.
>
Is it a problem with Tk itself or with the Python wrapper? Would it be 
better if we made a more Pythonic version of Tkinter, e.g. making 
Frame.title a property?

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