pygtk does ... ?

From: Thomas Bartkus <thomasbartkus@comcast.net>
Date: Fri Jul 08 2005 - 20:03:56 CEST

I am experimenting (flailing around?) with glade and python. Both under MS
Windows and Linux.

I understand why I want to "import gtk"
It gives me access to the critical gui program loop
gtk.main() and main_quit()

I am also very grateful for
  import gtk.glade
This lets me open my xml format glade file
   gtk.glade.XML("MyGladeFile.glade")
full of defined gtk widgets and the function
   signal_autoconnect(dic)
which lets me hang my Python callback routines onto those gtk widgets.

Whew! At least I've gotten started. It sure wasn't easy.

The question is -
What the heck is the pygtk library for?

help(pygtk) tells me not much more than -
"Python bindings for the GTK+ widget set"

Why would I want to "import pygtk" with it's single function
"require(version)"?
What is it supposed to do? Where does it fit in?

Or does it fit in at all?
Thomas Bartkus
Received on Thu Sep 29 16:50:14 2005

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pygtk does ... ?