I have this python code that I want to make it an app
I've designed it using tkinter which is a built-in GUI labrary for python.
To summarize everything,
I don't want to execute my code in editors but to create an app to handle everything.
Please help
I've tried using kivy to organize my algorithm but it works slow on my laptop
How can I create a simple frame in Kivy (Python for mobile), which will include a simple TextBox ?
Thanks guys
The biggest name I know of that uses (or used) wxPython is probably Dropbox:
How does Dropbox use Python on Windows and OS X?
This web page implies that NASA also uses wxPython:
https://modelingguru.nasa.gov/docs/DOC-2424/diff?secondVersionNumber=4
Google uses Python itself for all kinds of things and has been a big supporter of Python. They provide Python bindings to many of their product's APIs for example.
You might also check out the following for less well-known projects:
http://freecode.com/tags/wxpython
Whyteboard was getting popular for a while too.
There is significant movement away from desktop development to web and mobile development. For mobile, one of the best Python projects out there is Kivy. For the web, you have a lot of choices:
django
flask
pyramid
Plone / Zope
web2py
I have seen some pretty impressive desktop GUIs created using PyQt and IronPython, so I can't say that desktop GUI development is totally dead.
I have an application that uses Flash for the GUI and Python for the core logic. This combination is awesome. Unfortunately my current approach only works on Windows, as it uses the wxPython comtypes library to embed the Flash ActiveX player. Every other aspect of the app is platform-agnostic, so I'm thinking there must be some way on Linux to have Python talk to Flash.
The SWF need not require AVM2/AS3, though ideally I could use the most current Flash player available. I am using wxPython (wxWidgets) and would prefer to keep using it. Worst case I could jerry-rig something that loads the SWF in a separate process and talks over a socket connection to the Python, but I see no simple way to have the Flash display inside my application's window rather than a player window with its own menus and decorations.
Any suggestions appreciated. I'm very open to hacking at a solution if there's reason to believe it will work :)
Flash Professional has support to Adobe Air, so you could use it as front-end, usually a flash project can be released as an AIR application without major changes to its code. The communication could be done using Native Process Api (see links bellow). Then you can run it on Mac, Win e Lin.
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?349728-Air2-NativeProcess-launching-Python-scripts.
http://mykola.bilokonsky.net/2010/11/adobe-air-nativeprocess-and-python-introduction/
I have an existing VS-2008 Windows application with back-end MySQL Server 5.5. The existing application uses Crystal Reports for reporting. I want to get rid of Crystal Reports and want to use another tool that seamlessly integrates with VS-2010 Express. I want to remove reporting options from my existing application and want to write a new WPF reporting application using VS-2010 Express. I want a free tool but as I am using MySQL, tools like SSRS are not useful for me.
What are the options? I am planning the other way round by writing a Python reporting application powered by any open-source Python reporting tool.
For WPF you can use http://wpfreports.codeplex.com/ for simple reports or follow this article instructions to make you own: http://janrep.blog.codeplant.net/post/WPF-Multipage-Reports-Part-I.aspx
I've used SSRS, but only the RDLC part (you can use it with any datasource), but not very happy with the results and WPF does not have a native RDLC ReportViewer.
Also check this related question What's the best approach to printing/reporting from WPF?
Why not have both? IronPython is a python implementation on top of .NET. It allows you to write code that is totally python, but gives you access to all of .NET, including WPF.
For a quick look at what this looks like, here is a basic WPF project using ironpython.
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I have been experimenting with Appcelerator Titanum yesterday and I think it's cool when it comes to Javascript.
Python features on Appcelerator Titanum are so limited (can't use some modules for example).
My question is How can I use html & javascript as a GUI tool for a real python application ?
I am running windows 7 and i was thinking of using webkit for that purpose but couldn't know how to work with it in python.
I am planning to make a standalone executable using py2exe as I don't know if the users always have python and the appropriate modules installed.
If you're after webkit bindings for Python, look at PyQt, which includes Webkit, as well as wxWebkit (http://wxwebkit.wxcommunity.com/) if you're using wxWidgets. This lets you embed webkit in a Qt or Wxwidgets app so that you won't have to go through a browser.
If you do use this, then you can either use a web server in Python, like others have mentioned, or you can control the Webkit control directly (though I'm not sure how practical this is).
Beyond that, there's also Pyjamas Desktop (http://pyjs.org/), which lets you use Pyjamas to build the application, then run it.
pywebkitgtk might be what you are looking for.
"HOWTO Create Python GUIs using HTML" http://www.aclevername.com/articles/python-webgui/
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/07/how-to-build-a-desktop-wysiwyg-editor-with-webkit-and-html-5.ars
But I'm not sure if it runs on Windows.
PyQt and Webkit would work on Windows.
http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/webkit-pyqt-rendering-web-pages/
Here is a nice PyCon talk on the subject.
So how can I use html & javascript as a gui tool for a real python application ?
You run a web server on your desktop. For example, this: http://docs.python.org/library/simplehttpserver.html In a few lines of code you can provide a complete HTTP server that will serve your HTML and Javascript to a browser.
I am running windows 7 and i was thinking of using webkit for that purpose but couldn't know how to work with it in python actually moreover I wanna use py2exe so how can I use python + webkit to handle the gui part ?
Hard to parse that. It either indicates too much coffee or no familiarity with punctuation.
Randomly, I'll pick the following words as possibly being meaningful.
how can I use python + webkit to handle the gui part ?
You run a web server on your desktop. The web server provides html and javascript pages to a browser -- also running on your desktop.
Have you looked at htmlayout? http://terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/main.whtm
PHP Desktop is an open source project founded by Czarek Tomczak in
2012 to provide a way for developing native desktop GUI applications
using web technologies such as PHP, HTML5, JavaScript & SQLite. The
development workflow you are used to while creating web applications
remains the same. The step of turning an existing website into a
desktop application is basically a matter of copying it to the "www/"
directory.
PHP Desktop also releases Python Desktop and Ruby Desktop. It allows you to create a Windows app, that either uses the installed IE for the front-end, or uses an instance of Chrome (so definitely HTML5 support too) that is packaged with the app. It starts a local webserver, supports many databases with a PDO driver and you can layout the views in HTML and Javascript. You can download external resources like any other website/webapp, so it supports network related stuff too. The app ships with its own bare-bones version of Python, you can add libraries as desired.
I looked at all the answers before, as I had the exact same question as you, but PHP Desktop easily solved it for me.
https://code.google.com/p/phpdesktop/wiki/EmbeddingOtherScriptingLanguages
I assume you are mobilizing a web-application for cross platform access.
If so have you considered abstracting the cross platform access at the web-app presentation layer ?
Appcelerator / Webkit does not provide true native look-and-feel on mobile devices but this is where a new technology can help.
If you are thinking about real desktop applications that are multi-threaded and/or use multiple system component - forget about JavaScript. That requires a very good SDK (like PyQt4), and not a basic wrapper like Appcelerator Titanium. Note that developing such applications takes a lot of time.
Second option is to drop the desktop binding and make a web application with an advanced frontend UI made with one of JavaScript frameworks & friends (Ember, Angular... up to things like dhtmlx and alike widgets). Those can't use system components (like access some hardware), but they can provide nice services.
Take a look at pySide
I suggest using QtWebKit
And you can use PyInstaller if you want to hide the source code.
You can use TideSDK that can help you creating beautiful and unique desktop apps using your web development skills (HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript / Python or PHP or Ruby).
Website: http://www.tidesdk.org
Using Python in TideSDK: http://tidesdk.multipart.net/docs/user-dev/generated/#!/guide/using_python
Hope that helps! :)