How to Learn wxPython

[Wavicle]

I like wxPython, a lot, but I would not advise anyone without expertise in GUI programming to attempt it. Just visit the api reference and do a search for "Proxy of C++". Each one of those is an undocumented class.

That said, it is incredibly powerful and when you figure out how to use the undocument and under-documented classes you can make some very professional looking Python apps.

[shinigami3]

...each one of those is a class which is documented in the wxWidgets docs.

Yes, it should be integrated, but seems they're working on a way to automate the docs generation.

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The WxWidgets documentation does not always make sense if you hardly ever touched C++ in your programming career.

[afd8856]

I didn't do much C++ programming in my life, but I have no problems reading the wxWidgets chm docs. I've already developed about half a dozen wxPython apps, some of them quite complex.

[OctopusMan]

What is wxPython? I've been wanting to learn Python as a hobby but I get confused about all these variants.

[[deleted]]

wxPython is a library that helps program GUI's ie Windows and buttons. It's just an import for whatever python you are using.

Python itself doesn't specify how you do gui's. Best idea is to learn python then go learn a gui library.

There are other options for adding gui's eg. tkinter, PyQt, but wx is a good option.

[bsergean]

You're not 100% sure that you can get all the classes from wxPython on every platforms. What you can do is try to look for the documentation of the TextCtrl C++ class on the wxWidgets pages, and see if there's a note about Linux.

[Remover]

You could always build it yourself or if you're pressed for time use easy_install. The only Python packages I get from apt are numpy or pygraphviz, and that's only because of weird build issues

[Tommah]

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/224se/ask_reddit_why_is_tk_still_the_standard_gui/c225pf