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On 05/24/2011 03:17 PM, Lew Schwartz wrote:
> Here's my background:
>
> I'm a Windows based Visual FoxPro developer, and I want to start
> programming in Python. I'll be sticking to Windows (XP & 7) and my
> immediate needs are to manage & display large groups of jpg's, tiff's
> etc... so I need form based & graphics capable libraries (in addition to
> basic programming skills, of course).
>
> So Python 2 or 3? Add on packages/libraries? Tutorials?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Lew
>



If Visual Foxpro is your thing, maybe Dabo (www.dabodev.com) would be of 
interest to you.  The developers are former Visual Foxpro programmers...