Tonight I needed to draw a series of simple shapes in a window using a bit of math but didn't have much time to do it. I've got very little GUI toolkit experience. Briefly had a look at the usually-recommended heavyweight GUI toolkits, but I didn't want to inherit from widget classes or override paint methods (not that those things don't have their place). I just wanted to quickly draw some shapes. Within a few minutes I had what I needed, and it was by using Tkinter. The code looked something like this:
~~~~ #!/usr/bin/env python import Tkinter as tk root = tk.Tk() canv = tk.Canvas(root, width=647, height=400, background='white') canv.pack(side=tk.TOP, fill=tk.BOTH, expand=1) # drawing happens here ... canv.create_oval(50, 80, 150, 180) # ... root.mainloop() ~~~~ Wow that was *really* easy. After playing around just a bit more, regular GUI programs are pretty quick and simple to make as well. My only (minor) complaint is that Tk doesn't draw text antialiased in the various widgets (menus, labels, buttons, etc.). Anyway, thanks Tk and Tkinter! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
