Python GUI dev?

[localzuk]

Any Python devs out there - what libraries/tools do you use for Python interface dev? ie. non-command line/web work.

 

Wanting to learn Python properly, as I'm far too reliant on C# at the moment.

[Chris_Cook]

PyQt4 is pretty good. I've not really done much with it, but its nice and portable (mac, windows, linux) and looks fairly professional. Its both open source and commercially licensable if that's an issue for you.

[Steve21]

TKinter is what we used at uni, assuming you mean for forms/buttons blah blah

 

Steve

[dhicks]

Any Python devs out there - what libraries/tools do you use for Python interface dev?

 

Python handily includes a web server as part of its standard library, so you can write your own single-threaded (so you don't have to fret about database locks, or even bother using a database) web server in a couple of lines of code. For a "desktop" application I'd tend towards a small, self-contained web server and a shortcut that opens a web browser for the user.

[pcstru]

wxWidgets is another cross platform set of GUI contexts and controls with current, ongoing development and support in python via wxPython.

[CyberNerd]

Python handily includes a web server as part of its standard library, so you can write your own single-threaded (so you don't have to fret about database locks, or even bother using a database) web server in a couple of lines of code. For a "desktop" application I'd tend towards a small, self-contained web server and a shortcut that opens a web browser for the user.

 

or go one step further with appengine

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/overview

[localzuk]

Python handily includes a web server as part of its standard library, so you can write your own single-threaded (so you don't have to fret about database locks, or even bother using a database) web server in a couple of lines of code. For a "desktop" application I'd tend towards a small, self-contained web server and a shortcut that opens a web browser for the user.

 

Web browser based would be no use for some things I'd want to do. For example, a cashless catering system...

[localzuk]

wxWidgets is another cross platform set of GUI contexts and controls with current, ongoing development and support in python via wxPython.

 

I was having a play with this last night. Looks pretty good - simple to use too.

[CyberNerd]

Web browser based would be no use for some things I'd want to do. For example, a cashless catering system...

 

Before you go re-inventing the wheel, there are a bunch of OpenSource EPOS systems out there:

POSper | Free Business & Enterprise software downloads at SourceForge.net

Floreant POS | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net

Lemon Pos | Free Business & Enterprise software downloads at SourceForge.net

Openbravo source code repositories

this is even php (web?) based: Open Source Point of Sale | Free Business & Enterprise software downloads at SourceForge.net

If your determined with python (and it is a good choice) then there are projects you could collaborate on:

wxpos - Python cross platform point of sale software - Google Project Hosting

[localzuk]

None of them cater to schools - so don't track FSM, staff duty entitlements, or integrate with SIMS.net, or payment providers like ParentPay or ParentMail.

 

I have already written a system in C#, I potentially want to port it.

[CyberNerd]

None of them cater to schools - so don't track FSM, staff duty entitlements, or integrate with SIMS.net, or payment providers like ParentPay or ParentMail.

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Well they should! half the work is done already.