Guido van Rossum writes:
I got the wish list below. Anyone care to comment on how close we are on fulfilling some or all of this?
Claudio Ramón
* Incorporate WxWindows (wxpython) and/or Gtk+ (now exist a win32 port) GUI in the standard distribution. For example, Wxpython permit an html browser. It is very importan for document presentations. And Wxwindows and Gtk+ are faster than tk.
And GTK+ looks better, too. ;-) None the less, I don't think GTK+ is as solid or mature as Tk. There are still a lot of oddities, and several warnings/errors get messages printed on stderr/stdout (don't know which) rather than raising exceptions. (This is a failing of GTK+, not PyGTK.) There isn't an equivalent of the Tk text widget, which is a real shame. There are people working on something better, but it's not a trivial project and I don't have any idea how its going.
* Incorporate a database system in the standard library distribution. To be possible with relational and documental capabilites and with import facility of DBASE, Paradox, MSAccess files.
Doesn't sound like part of a core library really, though I could see combining the Win32 extensions with the core package to produce a single installable. That should at least provide access to MSAccess, and possible the others, via ODBC.
* Incorporate a XML/HTML/Math-ML editor/browser with graphics capability (to be possible with XML how internal file format). And to be possible with Microsoft Word import export facility. For example, AbiWord project can be an alternative but if lacks programming language. If we can make python the programming language for AbiWord project...
I think this would be great to have. But I wouldn't put the
editor/browser in the core. I would stick something like the
XML-SIG's package in, though, once that's better polished.
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr.