GUI problem

[Alex Martelli]

Benson Ngai wrote:

> I have to write the game "master mind" in python as a assignment. I am
> gonna need some help on the GUI, does any one of you know what would
> be a gd package to use for python? does python have a openGL? all I

Sure, http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/ -- but...:

> need is some very simple 2D graphic. does anyone of you know of a gd

...why use a such a complex, 3-D graphic library for that?  I think Tkinter
or PyQt will be better for your purposes.

> book that I can use? this is gonna be my first python program. if u
> know any gd python book, python graphic book that would be great.

Rempt's "GUI Programming with Python: QT Edition" is reasonably
tutorial and freely available at http://www.opendocspublishing.com/pyqt/ --
but you should still learn some Python apart from any GUI issues before
you tackle GUIs, IMHO.

Start with "MasterMind" implemented with a text-only interface (that's
quite easy given the kind of input and output you need, after all), and
only then start worrying about GUIs -- that's my advice.


Alex