IDE for python similar to visual basic

[Kevin Walzer]

On 8/30/09 1:48 PM, r wrote:

>
> Hello qwe rty,
>
> I remember my first days with GUI programming and thinking to myself;
> how on earth can i write GUI code without a MS style GUI builder? Not
> to long after that i was coding up some pretty spectacular GUI's from
> nothing more than source code and loving it.
>
> [Warning: the following is only opinion!]
> I think a point and click GUI builder (although some may disagree) is
> actually detrimental to your programming skills. The ability to
> visualize the GUI only from the source code as you read it, is as
> important to a programmer as site reading sheet music is to a
> musician. And I like to program with the training wheels off.

Whether done in code or with a visual tool, good, effective GUI design 
is not easy. However you get there is up to you. In my case (using 
Tkinter), I've found that it's faster and better to write the code by 
hand. Code in the text editor, the terminal for testing: simple and 
easy. Adding another tool to the mix just makes things more complicated. 
:-) Some may find it's easier to use a GUI builder, and if that's the 
case, some good ones have been recommended.

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-- 
Kevin Walzer
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