Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.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 0.024 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'prefix': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'strings.': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; '(via': 0.16; 'kern': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:GUI': 0.16; 'subject:programming': 0.16; 'underlying': 0.16; 'wxpython': 0.16; 'subject:python': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'certainly': 0.24; 'interpret': 0.24; 'unicode': 0.24; 'right.': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'correct': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'dec': 0.30; 'robert': 0.30; 'subject:please': 0.30; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'handled': 0.32; 'not.': 0.33; "can't": 0.35; 'good.': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'handle': 0.38; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'most': 0.60; 'subject: ': 0.61; 'simple': 0.61; 'our': 0.64; 'world': 0.66; 'believe': 0.68; 'eco': 0.84; 'strings)': 0.84; 'terrible': 0.84; 'subject:want': 0.91; 'convinced': 0.93; 'many,': 0.93; 'subject:answer': 0.95; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Robert Kern Subject: Re: GUI:-please answer want to learn GUI programming in python , how should i proceed. Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:03:03 +0000 References: <9f5d28ce-504d-40db-baa2-ff3699ab05c7@googlegroups.com> <20131214180549.59e9831a6faf098b754ea00a@gmx.net> <52ace2c0$0$29992$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <52ade081$0$29976$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <9846a594-e415-4ab8-8df7-67d10a081ffc@googlegroups.com> <52b01978$0$29973$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <52b031cc$0$29976$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.1.240.226 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <52b031cc$0$29976$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.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: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1387285401 news.xs4all.nl 2874 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:53034 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:62183 On 2013-12-17 11:13, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:39:06 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> Personally I am convinced that wxPython can't handle unicode for the >> simple reason that it doesn't yet support Python 3 and we all know that >> Python 2 and unicode don't mix. > > I don't think this is right. The Unicode support in Python 2 isn't as > good as in Python 3, but it is still pretty good. You just have to > remember to use the u prefix on your strings. > > If it is true that wxPython cannot handle Unicode -- and I see no > evidence that this is correct -- It most certainly is not. wxPython has handled Unicode (via `unicode` strings) for many, many years now. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco