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Good looking Python GUI toolkit for Snow Leopard (64 bit)

I am looking for a GUI toolkit / framework for creating applications that run on Mac Snow Leopard and, preferably, on other systems (Windows, Linux).

Tripping switches:

  • X11 based
  • Step-by-step widgets
  • 32 bit / carbon
  • Appearance of Bad Mac

As far as I know, Tkinter launches X11 and wxWidgets, and PyQT does not launch the 64-bit version.

Is there anything useful for good looking Mac apps?

[edit] http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming Enumerates many unsuitable things, but has some interesting ones. Lucid ... rings the bell, but the site knows nothing about Python. PyGUI, looks like a cool one-person project, just like uxpython.

It seems that QT, WX and TK are really big ... All of them can have 64-bit or Cocoa ports in a few years, but at a time when none of them work out of the box.

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There is no perfect solution yet.

  • Tkinter works, but for me it's not great
  • PyObjC works but is not cross-platform
  • PyQT and wxWidgets may work someday ...

I'm not sure what to use, but now I have accepted PyQT.

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Perhaps PyQt runs on a 64-bit Snow Beopard. Check out this link and try.

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Your list does not specifically exclude CocoaPython / PyObjC , which would be completely native on Mac OS X. It did not run on anything else, however

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Apple, supplied by Tk, Aqua Tk, on OS X was not based on X11, since at least OS X 10.4. Apple sends the 64-bit version of Aqua Tk to OS X 10.6, and Tkinter is bundled with it in the supplied Apple Python 2.6. However, there were some problems using IDLE and other test applications. Your mileage may vary.

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