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Markus Wankus markus_wankusGETRIDOFALLCAPS at hotmail.com
Sat Jul 17 08:11:08 EDT 2004 
Steve Menard wrote:
>> In terms of developing GUI apps - I think a SWT Python wrapper would 
>> rule.  It has a *very* similar feel to wxWidgets.  The problem is 
>> there is a small binary for each OS, but a big swt.jar file with most 
>> of the platform-neutral code in it.  I've played with Jython and SWT 
>> and used Python to open up a Hello World window - but it definitely 
>> would not be ready for a real app without some wrappers being written...
>>
>> Markus.
> 
> 
> There is an alternative. If you want to use SWT with python, look at 
> http://jpype.sourceforge.net
> 

Cool... Not that it is an issue, but I assume you will have 2 JVM's 
running (Java and Python) to do this?

Markus.
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