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What GUI toolkit looks the best?

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Thu Dec 11 14:10:55 EST 2003 
Brian Kelley wrote:
> 
> I hate wxPython's text widget for most of the reasons you described.
> Plus, since we are using python, why isn't there a .write(...) method
> for these widgets?  Why can't I use a text widget like:
> 
> sys.stdout = TextCtrl(parent)
> 
> I had to make a wrapper around the text widget to make it behave like a
> StringIO() class.  It internally did all the necessary conversions to
> the strings, but now I can use ...

Probably the reason the text widget doesn't already do those things is
that nobody has taken the time to make it happen *and* release the changes
back to the project.  Is Robin Dunn supposed to think of and write all
these things himself, just for your benefit?

-Peter
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