wxPython vs Glade?

Michael Pobega pobega at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 09:26:55 EST 2009


On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:30:13AM -0500, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Michael Pobega <pobega at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking for opinions on the best toolkit for a beginner to use with
> > wxPython. It doesn't necessarily need to be the most efficient toolkit,
> > but something I can use for basic programs (a Twitter client, Wordpress
> > blogging client, etc) just to learn Python.
> >
> > wxWidgets seems nice because it's portable, but I'm not sure how many of
> > my libraries are portable (a lot of them seem to import os), while Glade
> > seems extremely simple to make a UI (but does the program end up relying
> > on Glade? Or can I build it directly into GTK+?)
> >
> 
> wxPython is the toolkit. It provides Python wrappers for wxWidgets. I think
> you are looking at wxGlade, a UI designer for wx based off of the Gnome UI
> builder. It's not a toolkit..
> 

No, I'm not. You don't have to argue semantics with me; I'm talking
about using wxPython directly (i.e. with Vim) or using Glade to build an
interface; I'm wondering which makes for the easiest and best end result
code.

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