Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Michiel> What is the advantage of Tk in comparison to other GUI > Michiel> toolkits? > >IMO, Tk's _advantage_ is that it's there already. As a standard >component, it works well for typical simple GUI applications (thus >satisfying "batteries included" IMO), and it's self-contained. So I >would say it's at _no disadvantage_ to other toolkits. > >Alternatives like PyGtk and wxWidgets are easily available and provide >some degree of cross-platform support for those who need something >more/different. > >Is there some reason why you can't require users to install a toolkit >more suited to your application's needs? > > My application doesn't need a toolkit at all. My problem is that because of Tkinter being the standard Python toolkit, we cannot have a decent event loop in Python. So this is the disadvantage I see in Tkinter.
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