Giorgio Luciano ha scritto:
At first I thought ... hey why people wat an interface, just use the console, and then after listening to their reason I have to agree. What do I generally do ? I have a matrix in txt, I apply my routines (a SVD, a PCA, a filter etc etc written in python), plot them (using maplotlib) and then I want an output. that's it. I started looking at various Qt etc. etc. but for me it's overhelming, because I think that the most important part should be dedicate to the routines creation and not to making a gui, compiling, etc. etc. I need simple command like people wants. grids, paste and copy, small working plots :) I mean I can get crazy with setting my program, importing etc. etc. but I also have to say that needs and claim about writing simple guis, common paste and copy etc should be considered from someone there (we wait for the help of some guru that makes things easier ;)
It's quite hard for me to understand what you mean.Anyway, I solved the issue of usability vs code simplicity for my data analysis application by using a mixed CLI+GUI design. That is, I have a very simple GUI that just shows the plot and may have some button/menu for basic operations, and a custom command line to finely work with it. Think of RasMol, for example. The custom command line is done with the Python Cmd module that is included with Python, and it's a breeze to code with. The GUI uses Matplotlib embedded with wxMPL in a wxPython frame. The command line and the GUI are threaded (work on two different threads) that communicate by passing events (cli-->gui) and with a Queue (gui-->cli): easy.
Anyway, I'd advice you to learn wxPython basics. It's powerful, free, multiplatform and it's becoming the default Python GUI toolkit in the wild. Learning a GUI toolkit cannot harm. If you can, buy the Robin Dunn book "wxPython in Action", it's wonderful to say the least.
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