On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Bob Martin <bob.mar...@excite.com> wrote: > in 695509 20130422 081727 Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >>I think that if you are worrying about the overhead of the tkinter >>bindings for Python, you're guilty of premature optimization. The tkinter >>package in Python 3.3 is trivially small, under 2 MB. > > "trivially small"? > 30 years ago a small mainframe only had 2MB.
30 years ago, people weren't using Tk. We've moved on beyond worrying about the odd kilobyte of space. (Also, I think you're talking RAM, and Steven was talking hard disk. Systems can easily have another SI unit of disk than memory.) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list