Programmer-Wanna-Be (Is Python for me?)

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Thu Oct 12 15:45:28 EDT 2000


In article <slrn8uaoge.nou.r2d2 at lenin.acc.umu.se>,
Niklas Frykholm <r2d2 at acc.umu.se> wrote:
>
>BUT, if what you want to do is create Windows shareware or something
>similar, Python has, in my view, two clear disadvantages
>
>* NO CANONIZED GUI
>
>If you want to make a GUI with Python you have to use an add-on product
>such as Tk or wxPyhton, which means you have to install and learn
>one of these packages as well as Python. And while I wouldn't go so
>far as to call them un-pythonic, they are not completely pythonic
>either... so you need to learn to think a little differently.

Huh?  Tk comes standard with the Python Windoze distribution and has at
least since 1.5.2.
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