Gregory Petrosyan wrote: > I have to write _simple_ gui library, for embedding into game. My > first attempt was to use XML
... > But after reading "Python Is Not Java" > http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html (BTW I'm not a > Java programmer) I realised that it is actually not cute at all :) (am > I wrong here?) Don't do that :) Don't listen to recommendations for or against a technology based only on vague "this is not how we do things around here" reasons. If XML suits your need, than use it. It seems it will work fine in situations where you need to edit/extend the GUI by external means. If you do it in code, you risk that you'll need to change the code every time you want to reposition a GUI element. It doesn't matter much if you invent your own file format because eventually you'll have to extend it, or write support for it, so you could as well use XML from the start. XML parsing can be a little tedious, but there are many tools that make it easier (I've even written one: http://ivoras.sharanet.org/xmldict.py.gz). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
