> Okay, so I have been reading some of the tutorials around the net on > Python. great stuff I might add but I am getting all confused with the > TCL, xwwidgets etc. I want to be able to program and I am just using the > standard IDE that comes with Python. Am I on the right track?
Yes, when beginning stick to the most basic tools. The wxWidgets stuff is the underbelly of wxPython but you should only need to worry about that once you get into quite deep GUI design. Similarly Tcl/Tk is the underbelly of Tkinter and again you should rarely ever see Tcl nowadays in Python, apart from a deeply nested error message from Tkinter - where you can nearly always ignore the Tcl aspects! Other languages are useful to compare with, seeing the same basic structures in different languages can emphasise that the concepts are the same, it's only syntax that changes. But only try to *learn* one lot of syntax at a time, otherwise you will get confused. > with C++ but heck, I just want to learn Python for now. I do want the > widgets to look nice sure. HELP! wxWidgets is written in C++, as are most native code applications etc. Unfortunately most of the documentation for wxPython still uses the C++ documents so you either have to work from the higher level Python documents or learn to read (at a superficial level) the C++ documents. To do that you really need to have covered the basics of OOP - which is one thing I like about Tkinter, you don't need OOP to use it, although OOP makes it easier... But as a beginner most of your programs should be targetted at the command line. To try to build GUIs too soon will simply distract from the fundamental proinciples of programming. And once you have a working command-line version its usually fairly easy to convert it for GUI use later, especially if you keep the display functions (ie. print statements) separate from the logic. HTH, Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
