Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:40:07 +0000, tinnews wrote: > > > I want to write a fairly trivial database driven application, it will > > basically present a few columns from a database, allow the user to add > > and/or edit rows, recalculate the values in one column and write the > > data back to the database. > > > > I want to show the data and allow editing of the data in a datagrid as > > being able to see adjacent/previous data will help a huge amount when > > entering data. > > > > So what toolkits are there out there for doing this sort of thing? A > > GUI toolkit would be lovely (allowing layout etc.) but isn't absolutely > > necessary. > > > > I'm a reasonably experienced programmer and know python quite well but > > I'm fairly much a beginner with event driven GUI stuff so I need a user > > friendly framework. > > I use wxglade to generate the GUI source for wxpython, and then write my > database code into the generated source for population of the grid and > responding to events. > > I's very easy and painless. I mostly use Postgres (with Psycopg2) for the > database, but sometimes sqlite. > > One big advantage for me is that I can go back to wxglade, change the > layout, regenerate the source and my own code is untouched.
Thanks, that sounds useful, I'll go and take a look at wxglade. I'll probably use sqlite as it's very lightweight and can happily just run on my desktop machine. -- Chris Green -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list