On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 10:29 AM Brendan Barnwell <brenb...@brenbarn.net> wrote: > > On 2020-11-24 00:05, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> > > >> >I'm still confused what the point is of a zipapp, if it can't be a proper > >> >point and click GUI thing, and it can't use any compiled extensions. How > >> >it is it better than a console_script and a pip-installed package?? > >> > > > It CAN be a proper point-and-click GUI thing. You can have a fully > > executable Python script if it has no dependencies (just distribute a > > single .py file with a shebang at the top), and if you can't do that, > > bundle it into a .pyz with zipapp and, again, put a shebang for posix > > platforms. Windows, if the py.exe launcher is installed, will happily > > let you double-click on a .py or .pyz and it'll run just fine. > > I think by "proper point-and-click GUI thing" he meant the app itself > is a GUI app, not just "can be launched via the OS GUI". At least, that > is what I would mean by that, and that is what can't be done without C > extensions, because most GUI toolkits require C extensions. >
Python ships with one GUI toolkit (Tkinter). If you can't install anything else, you at least get that. (On Linux systems, it's sometimes in a separate package, but so are other parts of Python too, so it's hard to predict. I generally assume that, if you have to depend on the standard library only, you can at least depend on python3-all or the equivalent.) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/CBDDNM7A5JYXSXY4HQQCE4MWUDIPYIMQ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
