Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder5.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.017 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'arguments': 0.07; 'practice,': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'path.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'sake': 0.09; 'cases': 0.15; 'bit).': 0.16; 'competitor': 0.16; 'fuzzy': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'webapp': 0.16; 'pfxlen:0': 0.17; 'thanks,': 0.18; 'app': 0.19; 'ideal': 0.20; 'question.': 0.20; 'written': 0.20; 'sort': 0.21; 'all,': 0.21; 'lets': 0.22; 'own.': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.23; 'apps': 0.23; 'nearly': 0.23; "i've": 0.23; 'seems': 0.23; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'idea': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'wondering': 0.26; 'first,': 0.27; 'handling': 0.27; 'implemented': 0.27; '(as': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'run': 0.28; '(maybe': 0.29; 'probably': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'framework': 0.30; 'stuff': 0.30; 'running': 0.32; 'hopefully': 0.33; 'problem': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'excel': 0.33; 'entry': 0.33; "can't": 0.34; 'done': 0.34; 'server': 0.35; 'direction': 0.35; 'doing': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'add': 0.36; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'client': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'too': 0.36; 'enough': 0.36; 'skip:v 20': 0.37; 'data': 0.37; 'some': 0.38; 'things': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'build': 0.39; 'application': 0.40; 'where': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'enable': 0.60; 'further': 0.61; 'places': 0.61; 'dedicated': 0.61; 'kind': 0.61; 'different': 0.63; 'road': 0.63; 'more': 0.63; 'results': 0.65; 'sports': 0.69; 'goal': 0.74; '2-3': 0.75; "'main'": 0.84; 'amateur': 0.84; 'application?': 0.84; 'lightweight': 0.84; 'limitations.': 0.84; 'monte': 0.84; 'subject:over': 0.84; 'pc,': 0.91; 'confidence': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Monte Milanuk Subject: PyQT app accessible over network? Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:22:53 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.172.107.27 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 Cc: pyqt@riverbankcomputing.com X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 38 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1361463791 news.xs4all.nl 6875 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:55469 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:39440 Hello all, New guy here, with a kind of general question. Hopefully its not too silly... I've been working at learning python off and on now for a while, with a couple programs in mind as a goal - kind of specialized stuff that I can't seem to find a good match for already available, competitor records, score-keeping & results for an amateur sports tournament. Many places use some cobbled-together Excel spreadsheet, which has its limitations. Others use an antiquated DOS-style application written in PowerBasic that has issues of its own. Probably 98-99% of the time the match administration would be done by a single individual on a single PC, which seems like it would be nearly ideal for a desktop application implemented in PyQt4 or similar. The problem is (as usual) those edge cases where there are enough volunteers/resources to have more than one person doing data entry (maybe 2-3 in practice, but lets say 10-12 for arguments sake to pad things a bit). What I was wondering is what would be a good way of handling this with a PyQt app? Build the desktop app first, and add some sort of functionality to enable a lightweight web server and framework for the additional data entry 'clients'? Or would it be better to create dedicated PyQt client apps to connect to the PC/laptop running the 'main' application? Should I go a different direction entirely, with a complete self-hosted webapp built on a framework like web2py? As you can probably tell, I have only a vaguely fuzzy idea of 'how' at this point... but I would like to be able to proceed with some confidence that as I get further down the road I'm not going to run into a dead-end and have to start over down a different path. Thanks, Monte