GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Oct 23 21:42:55 EDT 2020
On 10/23/2020 12:52 PM, John Pote wrote:
>
> On 23/10/2020 05:47, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> I think that commercial desktop applications with a python
>>> compatible GUI would likely use QT or a Python binding thereof.
>> Agreed. If you want to improve you "hirability" for GUI application
>> development, I would probably put Qt first. Then gobject or
>> wx. Tkinter would probably be last.
>
> I've used tkinter and wxPython occasionally in the past for 1 off test
> tasks (and interest). What's the advantage of Qt?
For you usage, perhaps None. Qt is an *application* framework that
includes a GUI module likely bigger than tkinter. Its non-GUI parts
replace things other than tkinter in the stdlib or on pypi.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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