gui toolkits: the real story? (Tkinter, PyGTK, etc.)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> So, that leaves me wondering, why is Tkinter still getting so much
> focus in the Python standard library?
> 
> Maybe a better question is, how has Tk managed to keep beating up the
> newer, more modern, more featureful, better documented toolkits
> encroaching on his territory? What's Tk's secret weapon?

The trick is very simple. Tkinter just *doesn't* get much focus. Very
few of the core developers actively work on it; I do so only once
every two years or so to merge all the patches that get contributed.

Regards,
Martin