How to decide (and know) which Python GTK version to use?
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Tue Jul 31 04:52:38 EDT 2018
Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/30/2018 11:04 AM, Akkana Peck wrote:
> > Yes, this is the future, since it lets you use both GTK3 and Python3.
>
> Unfortunately the automatically-generated bindings, while fast and
> complete, are not quite as pythonic as the old PyGTK bindings were. The
> abstraction layer pygobject provides leaks some of the underlying C-isms
> through. I can't remember exactly which bits feel the most foreign as
> it's been a while since I used it. But who am I kidding? PyQt (my
> preferred toolkit) or PySide aren't terribly Pythonic either; lots of
> C++ and Qt abstractions leaking through various Qt types when native
> Python types would be preferable (like lists and dictionaries).
Yes, this has been some of my problem when starting to use these
packages. I'm a retired Software Engineer and I spent much of my
career (like the last 40 years or more) writing C/C++, so seeing C-like
code isn't 'difficult', but it can be confusing. Some of the bits of
'example' code are actually C/C++ rather than Python which had me very
confused for a while!
Also there's the oddity of Gtk.Window and Gtk.Window.new (also due to
the C/C++ ancestry?).
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Chris Green
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