Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: beginners choice: wx or tk? Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:06:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1436882770 14282 67.130.15.94 (14 Jul 2015 14:06:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:06:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:93813 On 2015-07-14, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 07/13/2015 08:42 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> If it didn't have to run on Windows, I'd pick pygtk over wx. I've >> never tried qt. > > PyQt is very nice to work with. In some respects it's not as Pythonic > as PyGTK. It feels a lot like transliterated C++ code, which it is. > But it's a powerful toolkit and looks great on all supported platforms. > If the licensing terms of PyQt are not to your liking, PySide is fairly > close to PyQt (a few quirks that can be worked around), though I'm not > sure how much love it's receiving lately. Like wx, or Gtk, you would > have to ship some extra dlls with your project for Windows and OS X. Why would you have to ship "extra" libraries for Windows? Extra compared to what? When I compared bundled apps for Windows using wx and Tk, you had to ship more libraries using Tk than you did with wx. Maybe that's changed... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! On the road, ZIPPY at is a pinhead without a gmail.com purpose, but never without a POINT.