WxPython versus Tkinter.

[Bryan]

On Jan 23, 5:13 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:23:13 -0800, rantingrick wrote:
> > I am not
> > trying to create a working file browser so you can steal my code.
>
> Dammit! There goes my brilliant idea for getting rich.
>
> Step 1: Start company.
> Step 2: Steal working file browser from Internet.
> Step 4: Profit!
>
> I think rantingrick's comment inadvertently shows in a nutshell
> everything wrong with this thread and why there is so little interest in
> his proposal. If RR is right about the GUI toolkit making or breaking the
> entire Python community, there should be hundreds of people with an
> opinion, not just a handful.
>
> (1) rantingrick is willing to spend *hours* brow-beating people,
> insulting them, and cajoling them into doing things *his* way, supposedly
> because of his deep concern for the Python community, but isn't willing
> to donate a lousy *file browser* to the community.
>
> (2) GUI programming is TOO DAMN HARD, and until that fact is addressed,
> it's difficult for the majority of people to care whether the toolkit
> used (or, more likely, not used at all) is Tkinter, or wxPython, or
> something else.
>
> For something as common as displaying a file browser, it should be as
> simple as this:
>
> import gui_toolkit  # whichever
> path = gui_toolkit.select_file()

>
You mean like:

>>> import tkFileDialog
>>> path=tkFileDialog.askopenfiles()
>>> print path
[<open file '/Users/bryan/Documents/1.gif', mode 'r' at 0x5bf50>]

:-)

(I think the actual point of contention isn't a file dialog, but a
file browser like the windows explorer.