Re: Python and UI

Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Wed, 13 Oct 1993 10:57:41 +0100

> Another tack might be to drop the use of STDWIN, and substitute
> something else that's already been ported. SUIT comes to mind, for
> example.

I have had a look at SUIT, and even have half a Python interface for
it lying on a shelf somewhere. (Someone want to finish it?) I like
what SUIT does for simple interfaces but am not convinced that it can
replace STDWIN -- I seem to remember that you always get exactly one
top-level window, and I don't recollect there being a non-X11 version.
(In fact, I see SUIT as almost complementary to STDWIN.)

> A system that might better match Python's perspicuity, though, is
> something more like Joel Bartlett's EZD
> (ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/ezd/).

Haven't seen it yet. Anybody else know about it?

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>