-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Factual Error re wx Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:31:18 +0100 From: Gadget Steve (HM) <GadgetSteve@hotmail.com> To: <webmaster@python.org> At http://www.python.org/doc/faq/gui/#id4 the FAQ read: wxWindows is a portable GUI class library written in C++ that's a portable interface to various platform-specific libraries; wxWidgets is a Python interface to wxWindows. wxWindows supports Windows and MacOS; on Unix variants, it supports both GTk+ and Motif toolkits. wxWindows preserves the look and feel of the underlying graphics toolkit, and there is quite a rich widget set and collection of GDI classes. See the wxWindows page <http://www.wxwindows.org/> for more details. wxWidgets <http://wxwidgets.org/> is an extension module that wraps many of the wxWindows C++ classes, and is quickly gaining popularity amongst Python developers. You can get wxWidgets as part of the source or CVS distribution of wxWindows, or directly from its home page. The name wxWindows has been retired, (I think it was causing some hassle with MicroSnot), I think that above should read something like: wxWidgets, (http://www.wxwidgets.org) is a free, portable GUI class library written is C++ that provides a native look and feel on a number of platforms, with MS-Windows, MacOS-9/X, GTK, X11, Motif, WinCE, MGL, PalmOS & OS2 all listed as current stable targets. It has language bindings available to a number of languages including C, C++, *Python*, Pearl, Ruby, etc. wxPython, (http://www.wxpyton.org) is the python language binding for wxwidgets, while it often lags slightly behind the official wxWidgets releases it also offers a number of features, via pure python extensions, that are not yet available in other language bindings. There is an active user and developer community for wxPython. Both wxWidgets and wxPython are free, open source, software with permissive licences that allow their use in commercial products as well as in freeware or shareware. Gadget/Steve