On Friday, 9 January 2015 19:09:15 UTC-4, stephen...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 4:24:50 PM UTC-6, André Roberge wrote: > > EasyGUI_Qt version 0.9 has been released. This is the first announcement > > about EasyGUI_Qt on this list. > > > > Like the original EasyGUI (which used Tkinter), > > EasyGUI_Qt seeks to provide simple GUI widgets > > that can be called in a procedural program. > > > > EasyGUI_Qt is NOT event-driven: all GUI interactions are invoked by simple > > function calls. > > > > The archetype is get_string(message) > > which pops a box whose purpose is exactly the same as Python's > > input(prompt), > > that is, present the user with a question/prompt, have the user enter an > > answer, and return the provided answer as a string. Thus > > easygui_qt.get_string() can be used as a drop-in replacement for > > input(). > > > > Similarly, instead of using a print() function to display a message, > > show_message() is used which pops a message window. > > > > EasyGUI_Qt requires PyQt4 and is really targeted for Python 3.3+ - although > > it can work (possibly with some unicode problems ...) using Python 2.7. > > > > More information can be found at > > http://easygui-qt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html > > > > Feedback is most welcome, including reporting bugs to > > https://github.com/aroberge/easygui_qt/issues > > > > Happy 2015 everyone, > > > > André Roberge > > Very nice, thanks. > > One issue is the format returned for the calendar selection. For today, the > string returned is "Fri Jan 9 2015". My script needs to convert the date to a > datetime.date, and having the month returned as a string instead of an > integer makes this harder.
Would today's date be represented as the string "09.01.2015" useful to you? (I found out how to do this.) If so, I could perhaps add an argument like numeric_format = True. André -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
