[python-nl] Need a pointer... how to create an application or website and use Python

[Niels Bom]

There's a D in Django and it's silent ;-) 
Good luck!


On Saturday, 20 April 2013 at 23:20, Winkel, Alex van wrote:

> Allright lads,
> 
> Thanks for all your good advice !
> I allready downloaded Jango to start with and I'm still learning Python in the mean time.
> 
> Yesterday I wasn't able to attend to the PUN meeting, but I'm sure I will go to one soon.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Alex
> 
> ________________________________________
> Van: Python-nl [python-nl-bounces+wial=roceindhoven.nl at python.org] namens Wouter van Heyst [wouter at richtlijn.be]
> Verzonden: zaterdag 20 april 2013 11:53
> To: Dutch Python developers and users
> Onderwerp: Re: [python-nl] Need a pointer... how to create an application or website and use Python
> 
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 13:31:13 -0500, Kuno Woudt wrote:
> > On 18-04-13 09:07, Niels Bom wrote:
> > > If you're still fairly new to Python I would start doing simple
> > > commandline scripts/applications first. Later on switch to
> > > websites and/or GUI applications.
> > > 
> > > This will bypass a big stack of problems/challenges you get when
> > > you're making Python-powered websites. I've no experience with GUI
> > > applications but a wild guess is that it's similar.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > The biggest challenge with GUI applications I found is that you
> > typically will have to use a toolkit (Qt, GTK, or their windows/mac
> > os x equivalents) which is not written in python, and for which the
> > bindings will also not be very pythonic. For example when using Qt
> > you will soon need to know how to convert a python string to a
> > QString and back, and all kinds of other details which are very
> > specific to the toolkit and which do not help you appreciate and
> > learn python in any way.
> > 
> 
> 
> Qt has multiple python bindings. In PySide and newer versions of PyQt
> one usually does not have to deal with QStrings and QVariants. Then the
> question becomes, do you support different versions, on which platforms?
> Qt works on OSX nowadays but on phones it is a bit more iffy, and
> on alternative python implementations like pypy these bindings don't
> work at all.
> 
> So yeah, just learning python at first may not be a bad idea.
> 
> Wouter
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