Pythonic gui format?

[Fuzzyman]

Re: Pythonic gui format?


bruno at modulix wrote:[color=blue]
> Fuzzyman wrote:
> (snip)
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> > You say you don't want an 'extra layer' between your GUI and Python -
> > but your approach of using XML has the same drawback. Storing your 'GUI
> > configuration' in a text based format is a nice idea, but you will need
> > *something* to do the translation.[/color]
>
> Well, if the conf is valid Python, you've already get most of the
> 'something to do the translation' for free !-)
>[/color]

Except he can't use ordinary dictionaries because they don't preserve
order, which is one of his requirements...

Your trivial example below redone with ConfigObj syntax :

[window]

widgets = , # empty list

Code to read it :

from configobj import ConfigObj
gui_object = ConfigObj(filen ame)

All thebest,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

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>
> --
> bruno desthuilliers
> python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
> p in 'onurb@xiludom. gro'.split('@')])"[/color]

[bruno at modulix]

Re: Pythonic gui format?

Fuzzyman wrote:[color=blue]
> bruno at modulix wrote:
>[color=green]
>>Fuzzyman wrote:
>>(snip)
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>>You say you don't want an 'extra layer' between your GUI and Python -
>>>but your approach of using XML has the same drawback. Storing your 'GUI
>>>configuratio n' in a text based format is a nice idea, but you will need
>>>*something * to do the translation.[/color]
>>
>>Well, if the conf is valid Python, you've already get most of the
>>'something to do the translation' for free !-)
>>[/color]
>
>
> Except he can't use ordinary dictionaries because they don't preserve
> order, which is one of his requirements...[/color]

Except that dict ordering (or lack of) is not a problem here, cf my
other posts about this !-)

--
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb@xiludom. gro'.split('@')])"

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

Re: Pythonic gui format?

In <t9mdncjHu9hxE2 _eRVn-oA@comcast.com> , DH wrote:
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>> And what about true vs True and false vs False ?-)[/color]
>
> The syntax is the same, except for, as I said, JSON's multiline comments.
> The semantics do differ, but that has nothing to do with the user's
> question, about an alternative to XML for data representation. You
> can use "true" or True or "null" or None or whatever semantic values
> you want.[/color]

You can't use `True`, `False` and `None` in JSON documents. And strings
are delimited by `"` and not `'`. The `\x??` escape is forbidden in
strings and it's not allowed to leave out a leading zero in numbers, nor
is it allowed to start a number with a unary `+`.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

[bearophileHUGS@lycos.com]

Re: Pythonic gui format?

Sorry for the late reply, I have some ideas about a possible GUI
toolkit design (that works with one already done like GTK), I'll
probably show them here. In the meantime I can show this one:

http://thinlet.sourceforge.net/home.html

I like it because the way GUIs are defined is quite short.

bye,
Bearophile