On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:23:13 -0800, rantingrick wrote: > I am not > trying to create a working file browser so you can steal my code.
Dammit! There goes my brilliant idea for getting rich. Step 1: Start company. Step 2: Steal working file browser from Internet. Step 4: Profit! I think rantingrick's comment inadvertently shows in a nutshell everything wrong with this thread and why there is so little interest in his proposal. If RR is right about the GUI toolkit making or breaking the entire Python community, there should be hundreds of people with an opinion, not just a handful. (1) rantingrick is willing to spend *hours* brow-beating people, insulting them, and cajoling them into doing things *his* way, supposedly because of his deep concern for the Python community, but isn't willing to donate a lousy *file browser* to the community. (2) GUI programming is TOO DAMN HARD, and until that fact is addressed, it's difficult for the majority of people to care whether the toolkit used (or, more likely, not used at all) is Tkinter, or wxPython, or something else. For something as common as displaying a file browser, it should be as simple as this: import gui_toolkit # whichever path = gui_toolkit.select_file() Something like zenity: [steve@sylar ~]$ zenity --file-selection /home/steve/python/findsingle.py Of course there are times when you need to do more complicated things, and a decent toolkit should allow you to do so. But simple things should be simple, and as far as I can see, there are no GUI toolkits that make *anything* simple. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
