On 17/12/2015 18:06, peter mcfarlane wrote:
Hi,
I don't know if this is the correct forum, I am new to Python and
trying to install Kivy. I keep getting the following error message.
Can you help?
thanks,
pete
pip install --user Kivy
[snip attempted Windows build]
I've given up trying
On 2015-12-16 17:42, boB Stepp wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Alex Kleider
wrote:
Thank you, gentlemen (Alan, Ben, Mark,) for your advice.
The consensus seems to be in favour of tkinter
so I'll head in that direction.
If you are into books, "Programming Python, 4th ed." by Mark Lutz
On 18/12/2015 18:38, Alex Kleider wrote:
On 2015-12-16 17:42, boB Stepp wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Alex Kleider
wrote:
Thank you, gentlemen (Alan, Ben, Mark,) for your advice.
The consensus seems to be in favour of tkinter
so I'll head in that direction.
If you are into books,
On 2015-12-18 14:13, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 18/12/2015 18:38, Alex Kleider wrote:
Another issue about which I'd like to hear comments has to do with
how the imports are done.
Roseman indicates that
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
is the generally accepted way of doing
Alex Kleider writes:
> On 2015-12-18 14:13, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> > On 18/12/2015 18:38, Alex Kleider wrote:
>
> >> […] uses a syntax that is strongly discouraged
Yes. It is discouraged in PEP 8 and in other guides for Pythonic code.
Wildcard imports ( from import * ) should be avoided, a
On 18/12/15 18:38, Alex Kleider wrote:
> I've settled on "Modern Tkinter" by Mark Roseman.
> His is the most recently published of the various references recommended
> and he makes the point that the "themed" (ttk) component is recent
> (and I assume not covered in the other sources.)
FWIW My rec
