That being said, I am hopeful about PyGUI, but it's a going to be at least another few years before it's as useful as wxPython (there isn't even a real Windows version yet!). After all, it took quite a few years for wxPython to become really usable.

My mistake. I was under the impression that PyGUI had been abandoned. I will take another look. Maybe I was thinking of PIDDLE/Sping, which does appear to be abandoned. If PyGUI is still viable, I'll look into it and see if I can help out.

In the meantime, wxPython (and probably PyQT, if the license works for you) is a pretty good option for cross platform code, and it's slowly becoming more Pythonic.

I keep trying to like wxPython, I really do. It's just that its freaking huge, many of its widgets look like they were designed by children, and I find it really cumbersome to work with. The wx demo looks moderately OK on Windows, but pretty bad on OS X. I don't have any experience with PyQT, but prefer open systems to closed, given a choice.

There are also a couple of pythonic wrappers for wxPython: WAX and PythonCard. I'm not fond of the wrappers around wrappers around wrappers approach, but if they work for you, who cares how many layers there are?

I've looked at PythonCard, but you can't next objects, which rules it out for me (plus it's built on wx). I've been meaning to take a look at Wax to see if the API is worth porting to live on top of Cocoa, but I'll take another look at PyGUI first.

--Dethe

Choosing software is not a neutral act. It must be done consciously; the debate over free and proprietary software can’t be limited to the differences in the applications’ features and ergonomics. To choose an operating system, or software, or network architecture is to choose a kind of society. --Lemaire and Decroocq (trans. by Tim Bray)

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