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 What: Python
 Where: http://www.python.org/
 Description: Object oriented scripting langauge which has a [Tk] module
        called Tkinter. Beginning at version v1.5.2, includes [IDLE], an
        integrated development environment for Python that requires
        [Tkinter].
        Python 2.4 not only supports [Tk] on [Unix],
        but Tk on Windows and Macintosh platforms as well.
        The PythonWare site has an intro to Tkinter,
         as well as the binaries for win32 on its downloads page.
        The [ActiveState] site has binary distributions for Linux, Solaris and
         Windows.
        Currently at version 2.4
 Updated: 1/2005
 Contact: mailto:guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (Guido van Rossum)
        mailto:fredrik.lundh@image.combitech.se (Fredrik Lundh)
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''[escargo] 17 Feb 2003'' - For competition to using Tkinter, see the
IBM DeveloperWorks page on PyQt[http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-qt/?ca=dgr-linuxw02QTPyQT].

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"Typcl [http://www.equi4.com/critlib/typcl.README] ... [[i]]s an extension to use Tcl ''from'' Python."

 [Elmer] goes the other way.  [Elmer] allows developers to write code in Python and execute it in Tcl.
The resulting Tcl interface to the Python code generated by [Elmer] is transparent to the Tcl user...
Python calls appear as Tcl calls ( "foo( 1, "a" )" in Python appears as "foo 1 a" in Tcl, for example)
and Python and Tcl data types are automatically mapped (Tcl lists are converted to Python lists, Python dictionaries are returned as Tcl associative arrays, etc.).  [Elmer] also supports Python's "freeze"
module, allowing a Python developer to deliver a single library consisting of several Python files
 "frozen" in to the Tcl application...no need to set PYTHONPATH or have Python source files accompanying
the Tcl application.
 
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[Bruce Gingery] mailto:bgingery@gtcs.com  has an article that
compares Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, and Python/Tk to early 1980's BASIC using
a simple example at
http://home.gtcs.com/%7Ebruce/old_pages/articles/BASIC_today/ 

[Frank Stajano]'s paper at the 1998 Python conference [http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/ipc7/] had some
useful insights into why he thinks Python's extensions are evolving
faster and are easier to work with than Tcl's:
http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/papers/tr-1998-9.pdf.

A paper on embedding Tcl, Perl or Python can be found 
http://www.morrisland.com/%7Emitchell/.

Technical report evaluating the properties of 80 different implementations
of the same program in 7 different programming langauges (C, C++, Java, Perl,
Python, Rexx, and Tcl).  See
http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/%7Eprechelt/Biblio/#jccpprtTR
Erann Gat did a study of Lisp on the same problem.  You can find his work at
http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/gat/lisp-study.html and you can
see another Lisp solution at http://www.norvig.com/java-lisp.html

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See also:
   * news:comp.lang.python - a [USENET] interface to the Python mailing list
   * http://www.python.org/moin/PythonBooks - books on Python
   * [Comparing Tcl with Python]
   * [Accessing Tcl and Python from one another]
   * [Playing Python]
   * http://home.att.net/~stephen_ferg/thinking_in_tkinter/ 
   * http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/TkinterSummary.html

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