Python's great. It starts slower than many small unix programs but the code is very readable. The wxPython library is a nice gui, there are several ways to do gui development with wxPython--boa, pythoncard, wxGlade, or vim!
The scripts are fairly fast and responsive; it's not that hard to create programs that are comparable to c++ in speed. Best of all, there is no effort to compiling, linking, etc. Most developers using python rely on only the "print" command and builtin traceback info for debugging. I like wxPython because the code is very windows/linux portable. I like boa because you can use it to quickly create gui forms, menus, toolbars, and grids that work. You can add your own code, and drag it all back into boa to change the gui stuff. On 06/19/03 02pm, Rob Hudson wrote: > How is the executable on speed? Does it start up pretty quickly? > > > On 20030619.1439, Ralph Zeller said ... > > > > On 06/19/03 01pm, Rob Hudson wrote: > > > I ran into this today and thought it was interesting... > > > http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ > > > > > > There's also a perl2exe. > > > http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm > > > > > > Anyone ever play with these? > > > > py2exe works great. Except, the binary files can get really big if the > > library is big. For instance, I have a small (less than 150 code lines) > > wxpython program which lets you select a contact from a database, and > > print a label from the selection. The executable files are about 8mb. > > I haven't tried to trim it down; perhaps I'm importing too much stuff? > > > > I haven't tried perl2exe. > > _______________________________________________ > > EuG-LUG mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
