Am 2008-06-06 um 16:33 schrieb Kevin Walzer:
2. wxPython is cross-platform but looks great on the Mac with some attention to UI design, is well-documented (both in terms of available sample code online and books), and has a supportive community. It doesn't provide many Mac-specific hooks like PyObjC does, but it's quite sufficient for a nice application. One possible drawback to wxPython is that it runs on top of the Carbon frameworks, which are now deprecated on the Mac and will probably go away in the next several years. The plan to port wxPython to use Cocoa is somewhat hazy at this moment--wxWidget's Mac maintainer says he is implementing things gradually.
I'd suggest to use dabo (as Ed suggested), its GUI part is a "more pythonic" wxPython wrapper (for now - there are plans to wrap also Tkinter and Qt, but nobody's working at that). dabo is a three layer framework actually, but you don't need to use the database stuff. Unfortunately a lot of useful functionality is still mostly undocumented.
4. Tkinter comes with Python, and is easier to learn than the other toolkits. Basic Tkinter is well-documented and has a supportive community around it. The drawback is that it is a more spartan toolkit out of the box, and you have to work with a lot of extension packages to get a more sophisticated GUI. I use Tkinter as my toolkit and have not found a compelling reason to switch, but I've also done a lot of work on assembling a set of libraries that give the UI of my Python program the polish that Mac users demand. Like wxPython and PyQt, Tkinter doesn't offer a lot of Mac-specific hooks, and it also runs on Carbon. The plan to port Tkinter to Cocoa is also somewhat hazy at this point; a developer says he's working on it, but no releases or even much public discussion of his progress have been posted.
In my experience Tkinter is much slower than wxPython.
Growl has Python bindings, and can also be called from the command- line via AppleScript.
Growl is very easy to use from Python, I do it all the time (and thus spreading Growl in our company).
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