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PyGTK or wXPython?

PyGTK or wXPython?Christophe chris.cavalaria at free.fr
Tue Sep 13 11:49:10 EDT 2005
Peter Decker a écrit :
> On 9/13/05, Rod W <rodwellm at removeme.gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I'm just starting out on Python but my primary goal is to provide
>>applications with some user interface (GUI).
>>
>>Can someone point me to a good comparison of whether I should use
>>wxPython (with wxGlade I assume) or PyGTK (with Glade I assume)?
>>
>>I'd prefer open source (not necessarily GPL though) tools.
> 
> 
> I looked at both, and preferred wxPython's look. I hated its C-like
> feeling, with some very un-Pythonic code that failed to hide its C
> roots very well, but I used it because the results were so good.
> 
> Since then I've discovered Dabo, which is a complete application
> framework, and which wraps wxPython for its UI. Apparently, the
> authors of Dabo also didn't like the style of wxPython code, and have
> created their own classes that expose a cleaner, much more Pythonic
> API. I've been using Dabo for some small GUI apps, and I still can't
> believe how much easier it is to create the UI with Dabo than with
> plain wxPython. You should definitely check it out if you decide to go
> the wxPython route.
> 

There's Wax which is a cleaner pythonic API on top of wxPython.

Myself, I would go the PyQT way because the API is very clean and 
there's one less abstraction layer on top of it.

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