Python windowing, particularly Motif

Jeff P. Lankford (jpl@nrtc.northrop.com)
Thu, 4 Aug 1994 22:55:38 GMT

The current Python release supports several windowing extensions --
STDWIN, Tk, XMotif. Which is the preferred package? Which, if any,
are actively supported?

I am currently working with the XMotif extension, and have observed
some anomalies. In particular, after using SetValues to assign values
of type widget, the GetValues returns None. The culprit may
be xtvalue2p (at least there is a cryptic comment). Anyone else
noted this problem? Is there a fix, allowing me to be a Python programmer,
rather than a C programmer? Should I be using a different windowing
package?

thanks in advance,
jpl