Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-26 Thread Dietmar Schwertberger
On 23.10.2020 18:52, John Pote wrote: I've used tkinter and wxPython occasionally in the past for 1 off test tasks (and interest). What's the advantage of Qt? Qt does support mobile and touch oriented user interfaces. Also, it does support GUI programs on microcontrollers now on bare-metal.

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-26 Thread Edmondo Giovannozzi
Il giorno venerdì 23 ottobre 2020 alle 18:55:53 UTC+2 john... ha scritto: > On 23/10/2020 05:47, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > >> I think that commercial desktop applications with a python > >> compatible GUI would likely use QT or a Python binding thereof. > > Agreed. If you want to improve you

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-25 Thread Barry Scott
> On 23 Oct 2020, at 17:52, John Pote wrote: > > > On 23/10/2020 05:47, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> I think that commercial desktop applications with a python >>> compatible GUI would likely use QT or a Python binding thereof. >> Agreed. If you want to improve you "hirability" for GUI

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-23 Thread Terry Reedy
On 10/23/2020 12:52 PM, John Pote wrote: On 23/10/2020 05:47, Grant Edwards wrote: I think that commercial desktop applications with a python compatible GUI would likely use QT or a Python binding thereof. Agreed. If you want to improve you "hirability" for GUI application development, I

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-10-23, John Pote wrote: > On 23/10/2020 05:47, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> I think that commercial desktop applications with a python >>> compatible GUI would likely use QT or a Python binding thereof. >> Agreed. If you want to improve you "hirability" for GUI application >> development,

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-23 Thread Christian Gollwitzer
Am 22.10.20 um 23:52 schrieb Paul Rubin: Michael Torrie writes: I doubt you'll find any jobs connected a particular Python GUI toolkit. It would be really nice if there was a way to straightforwardly run Tkinter applications on Android. You'd install a single .apk and that would let you

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-23 Thread John Pote
On 23/10/2020 05:47, Grant Edwards wrote: I think that commercial desktop applications with a python compatible GUI would likely use QT or a Python binding thereof. Agreed. If you want to improve you "hirability" for GUI application development, I would probably put Qt first. Then gobject

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-10-22, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 10/22/2020 2:58 PM, Lammie Jonson wrote: > >> I looked at tkinter which seems to have quite a few examples out >> there, but when I searched indeed.com for tkinter and wxpython it >> appeared that there was hardly any job listings mentioning >> those. Why is

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-10-22, Michael Torrie wrote: > I doubt you'll find any jobs connected a particular Python GUI toolkit. > Except maybe at Red Hat. A couple years ago my employer was looking for (and hired) a Python wx application developer. > Most likely you'll find Python used in web app development,

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-22 Thread jfong
Lammie Jonson於 2020年10月23日星期五 UTC+8上午5時20分45秒寫道: > Thanks, > > Yes, I have some sense about how to do job interviews and market myself > which is always an ongoing process. > > I also just have an interest in different technologies that I may want to > investigate as I can get bored with

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-22 Thread Terry Reedy
On 10/22/2020 2:58 PM, Lammie Jonson wrote: I looked at tkinter which seems to have quite a few examples out there, but when I searched indeed.com for tkinter and wxpython it appeared that there was hardly any job listings mentioning those. Why is that ? I think that commercial desktop

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-22 Thread 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
On 2020-10-22 at 12:50:43 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Lammie Jonson wrote: > > I looked at tkinter which seems to have quite a few examples out > > there, but when I searched indeed.com for tkinter and wxpython it > > appeared that there was hardly any job listings

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-22 Thread Lammie Jonson
Thanks, Yes, I have some sense about how to do job interviews and market myself which is always an ongoing process. I also just have an interest in different technologies that I may want to investigate as I can get bored with certain things a little at times. If some technology seems a

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-22 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 8:39 AM Michael Torrie wrote: > > I was going to look at something like tensorflow perhaps, though I am > > not sure if machine learning is that easy to pickup or not > > Not sure anything difficult and worthwhile, even if it is popular and in > demand, is something you

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-22 Thread Michael Torrie
On 10/22/20 12:58 PM, Lammie Jonson wrote: > > I have been a rails developer as well as JS/react. I had wanted to > look at python a bit due to it's popularity. > > I looked at tkinter which seems to have quite a few examples out > there, but when I searched indeed.com for tkinter and wxpython

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-22 Thread Tal Einat
Hi Lammie, On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:03 PM Lammie Jonson wrote: > > I looked at tkinter which seems to have quite a few examples out there, > but when I searched indeed.com for tkinter and wxpython it appeared that > there was hardly any job listings mentioning those. Why is that ? > My guess

Re: GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Lammie Jonson wrote: I looked at tkinter which seems to have quite a few examples out there, but when I searched indeed.com for tkinter and wxpython it appeared that there was hardly any job listings mentioning those. Why is that ? It's a bit of a demotivating factor to get

GUI (tkinter) popularity and job prospects for

2020-10-22 Thread Lammie Jonson
I have been a rails developer as well as JS/react. I had wanted to look at python a bit due to it's popularity. I looked at tkinter which seems to have quite a few examples out there, but when I searched indeed.com for tkinter and wxpython it appeared that there was hardly any job listings