> On 23 Aug 2018, at 23:14, Hugh Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:49:48 +0000
>> From: Mike Barnett <[email protected]>
>>
>> Python has dropped the GUI ball, at least for beginners (in my opinion)
>>
>> While the Python language is awesomely compact, the GUI code is far from
>> compact. Tkinter will create a nice looking GUI, but you've got to be
>> skilled to use it. A student in their first week of Python programming is
>> not going to be working with tkinter.
>>
>> It would be nice if beginners could double click a .py file and have it
>> launch straight into a GUI, like most of the programs people are used to
>> using.
>>
>> I think I've stumbled onto a framework that could work very well for
>> creating fairly complex custom-layout GUIs...
>
> Have you looked at PySide2? It's the latest Python wrapper for the QT
> cross platform
> GUI framework.
Or indeed PyQt5 that works great as a Qt python interface.
Last time I looked PySide2 had a lot of catching up to do to match
PyQt's API coverage.
> A graphical "hello world" in QT is only half a dozen or less lines of
> code in total, so
> meets the simplicity requirement.
I think 2 lines is simple, 12 is not really simple, is it?
> The big drawback of QT for Python
> until now has
> been building the thing, but now it's on PyPI so "pip install"
> (should) Just Work.
You may have needed to build pySide2 yourself, however
PyQt4 and PyQt5 have been pip installable for a long time.
pip install PyQt5
Barry
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