Everything good about Python except GUI IDE?

I have some VB forms with more than a hundred objects. If I cannot drag and drop text boxes, list boxes, labels, etc., it will be too much work to create that with several lines of code for each object. Isn't there any good GUI IDE like Visual Basic? I hope there are some less well known GUI

Re: Everything good about Python except GUI IDE?

On Saturday, 27 February 2016 18:08:36 UTC+2, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: > On 27.02.2016 12:18, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > Isn't there any good GUI IDE like Visual Basic? I hope there are some less > > well known GUI IDEs which I did not come across. Thanks. > > As of today, there's

Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

I am mostly getting positive feedback for Python. It seems Python is used more for web based applications. Is it equally fine for creating stand-alone *.exe's? Can the same code be compiled to run on Linux or Android or web-based? Is it possible to create GUI elements with a good IDE? Can they

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

Thanks to all of you who have responded. One point two of you ask me is why I want to shift from Visual Basic. Most of my software is in VB6 (and VB3), and converting to VB.net is not very pleasant. I have learnt enough VB.net to manage most of the things I will need, but it always gives me a

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

Almost everything points positively for Python. Thanks to all of you who have responded. But please also tell me the disadvantages of Python. If I start using Python, I should be aware of the price I am paying. Speed is not a big problem for me, so an interpreted language is fine. Is

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

torstai 18. helmikuuta 2016 17.21.32 UTC+2 Oscar Benjamin kirjoitti: > On 18 February 2016 at 11:32, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:11 PM, wrote: > >> Almost everything points positively for Python. Thanks to all of you who >

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

torstai 18. helmikuuta 2016 16.08.05 UTC+2 William Ray Wing kirjoitti: > > On Feb 17, 2016, at 2:49 PM, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I am mostly getting positive feedback for Python. > > > > It seems Python is used more for web based applications. Is it equally fine > > for creating

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 13:32:58 UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:11 PM, wrote: > > Almost everything points positively for Python. Thanks to all of you who > > have responded. But please also tell me the disadvantages of Python. If I

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 17:59:59 UTC+2, William Ray Wing wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2016, at 10:33 AM, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > torstai 18. helmikuuta 2016 17.21.32 UTC+2 Oscar Benjamin kirjoitti: > >> On 18 February 2016 at 11:32, Chris Angelico wrote: > >>

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 18:01:17 UTC+2, Dan Strohl wrote: > Disadvantages of python... (compared to VB) > > That's a hard one, but here are my thoughts: (keep in mind that these kinds > of discussions are subjective and much is based on the background and > experience of the coder,

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 18:06:29 UTC+2, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:49 AM, wrote: > > Thanks. You have guided me quite well, and I am almost ready to declare > > that I will use Python for the next few decades. > > > > Don't declare like

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 18:24:55 UTC+2, Dan Strohl wrote: > I totally agree with Chris here, try it out, do some simpler things to get > your feet wet before committing to redoing hundreds of thousands of lines of > code in it. Find a few of the "deal breakers" and try to solve them in

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 21:31:20 UTC+2, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2016-02-18 07:33, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > Another question I have is regarding reading numerical data from > > text files. Is it necessary to read one character at a time, or can > > one read like in Fortran and

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Friday, 19 February 2016 03:06:58 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 02:35 am, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I am almost eager to do this but want to be sure that I know the pitfalls > > in using Python for my purposes. Thanks for your encouraging response. > >

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Friday, 19 February 2016 13:24:46 UTC+2, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 19/02/2016 10:47, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > 2 12.657823 0.1823467E-04 114 0 > > 3 4 5 9 11 > > "Lower" > > 278.15 > > > > Is it straightforward to read this, or does one have to read one character > > at a time

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Friday, 19 February 2016 16:08:46 UTC+2, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2016-02-19 02:47, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > 2 12.657823 0.1823467E-04 114 0 > > 3 4 5 9 11 > > "Lower" > > 278.15 > > > > Is it straightforward to read this, or does one have to read one > > character at a time and then

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Saturday, 20 February 2016 09:49:17 UTC+2, Larry Hudson wrote: > On 02/19/2016 10:14 AM, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > [snip] > > > > This is precisely reading one character at a time. If not exactly reading > > one character, it is effectively looking at each character to assemble the

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Saturday, 20 February 2016 09:54:15 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:53 pm, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote: > > >> See http://nedbatchelder.com/text/python-parsers.html for a list of > >> parsers that can do all sorts for you. Or the stdlib re module > > > > I am an

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Saturday, 20 February 2016 18:23:26 UTC+2, nholtz wrote: > On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 2:49:44 PM UTC-5, wrong.a...@gmail.com > wrote: > > I am mostly getting positive feedback for Python. > > ... > > I'm surprised no one has mentioned jupyter yet, so here goes ... > > A

Re: Considering migrating to Python from Visual Basic 6 for engineering applications

On Saturday, 20 February 2016 06:58:39 UTC+2, Denis Akhiyarov wrote: > On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 1:49:44 PM UTC-6, wrong.a...@gmail.com > wrote: > > I am mostly getting positive feedback for Python. > > > > It seems Python is used more for web based applications. Is it equally fine >