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Ask YC: Python Desktop Frameworks
6 points by dedalus on April 7, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
I need to write a desktop application in python that would take a tcpdump on the users' desktop and HTTP POST the dump to a server. Has anyone used Dabo before? Any other suggestion for Desktop Client Frameworks in Python?


I've used wxPython for a very large game editor. It is (or at least was a few years ago) the most complete desktop API for python. It's very easy to use and the examples make it easy to knock together a prototype VERY quickly that can be extended to a full application.

There are some issues on the OSX port though which tends to lag behind the Linux/Windows version on bug fixes (not by design but due to having fewer developers devoted to OSX).



I've found wxPython pretty straight forward - I understand Dabo is based on wxPython but haven't used it myself. I suspect it will be even more straight forward?


On the Mac, you can use pyobjc to write Cocoa apps. Included with Leopard.

http://www.friday.com/bbum/2007/10/27/pyobjc-20-pyobjc-in-le...


sounds like ur app would be better on the commandline

but wxpython seems to be the most popular




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