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Graphical User Interface application

Mitchell Morris mmorris at mindspring.com
Wed May 24 01:45:39 EDT 2000 
jilanik at tin.it (Jilani Khaldi) wrote in 
<MBEGIENDECAECJGNLHGGKEHNCAAA.jilanik at tin.it>:

>Hi All,
>I wonder if it is possible to write graphical user interface applications
>using Python, like in VB? If yes, what do I need then?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Jilani
>
>

I see many people have answered one possible interpretation of your 
question, but have neglected that you may be asking something else 
entirely. That said, I'll step up to the plate: I am aware of no tool that 
does everything for Python that VB does for BASIC. That is, you can find 
drag-and-drop editors for GUI component layout with Python as a target 
language, Python-aware editors including some lovely folding ones, and 
there might even be "property sheet" add-ons somewhere. Unfortunately, 
nobody has integrated all those parts into a single unified IDE.

The more I think about it, however, the more I wish I was wrong, as that 
would be the bee's knees. I've given this a teeny little bit of thought, 
and have come to the conclusion that the hardest part would be integrating 
the Python core into said editor so you could run your program, pause it 
mid-stream, edit some stuff, and resume execution. It's probably trivial 
for guys smarter than me (and there's plenty of those), but that's where I 
stumble.
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