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On 02/23/2013 11:10 AM, Steve Simmons wrote:
> I'm using Rapid GUI Programming with Python & Qt (Mark Summerfield ISBN 
> 978-0-13-235418-9) - it fits for me because I needed something that 
> covered GUI development but also had an intro to the language.  

Sounds fun.  One thing about PyQt is that it's really just C++ thinly
wrapped in python calls.  It's not really that pythonic.  PySide looks
to be a bit better, with more pythonic ways of interacting with things
(iteration, etc).