On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Ulli Horlacher > <frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: >> I want to start a project with python. >> The program must have a (simple) GUI and must run on Linux and Windows. >> The last one as standalone executable, created with pyinstaller. > > Not sure what your advantage is with pyinstaller, it adds a level of > complication that doesn't usually justify itself IMO. > >> I have already an implementation in perl/tk : >> http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/ZAcXSugp/schwuppdiwupp.png >> http://fex.belwue.de/download/schwuppdiwupp.pl >> >> I am not really happy with tk, because it has some bugs, at least its perl >> integration. I have never used wx. >> >> What is the recommendation for a python beginner: wx or tk? > > Using wxPython means you need another library, while tkinter comes > with Python. There are some limitations to tk, and I personally don't > like its style, but if you're wanting to package it up into an EXE, > every third-party library you add will increase the size of that EXE, > potentially quite significantly (wxPython will drag in everything that > it depends on, which IIRC is quite a bit).
I've worked with wxPython + pyInstaller in the past, and IIRC the total size of those dependencies (roughly Python + wxPython + matplotlib + numpy + cx_Oracle + sqlalchemy + pywin32) clocked in at around 20 MB. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
