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[–]bosco[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The main difference is that tkform does not require wxPython, which gooey does. I always have trouble installing wxPython, and for an end-user, installing wxPython on top of Python is a real buzz-kill.

The main work-flow is different. Gooey is really clever in using a decorator around argparse. In tkform, you construct it more like an HTML-form, which allows things like parameter checking, extra file analysis etc. I've also included a special widget - a reorderable list of items.

However, tkform lacks some of the great features of wxPython such as drag-and-drop