some n00b question

[Omar]

I'm learning how to program python. a few questions

a) I'm mostly interested in creating exe's that have to do with music
-- things to help me keep track of chord progressions, transpositions,
etc. can anyone point me in the direction of resources on this?

b) I'm also interested in created GUI's sooner rather than later. Can
anyone point me to a fast track to doing GUI's on python?

thanks

 

[John Salerno]

b) I'm also interested in created GUI's sooner rather than later. Can
anyone point me to a fast track to doing GUI's on python?

I recommend reading wxPython in Action. It's a great starter and
reference to the wxPython GUI toolkit. Tkinter is usually considered
easier and simpler, but I find it lacking in functionality, and wxPython
is actually fairly easy to learn.

 

[Omar]

I recommend reading wxPython in Action. It's a great starter and
reference to the wxPython GUI toolkit. Tkinter is usually considered
easier and simpler, but I find it lacking in functionality, and wxPython
is actually fairly easy to learn.

thanks, John

anyone on the music side?

 

[Larry Bates]

I'm learning how to program python. a few questions

a) I'm mostly interested in creating exe's that have to do with music
-- things to help me keep track of chord progressions, transpositions,
etc. can anyone point me in the direction of resources on this?

b) I'm also interested in created GUI's sooner rather than later. Can
anyone point me to a fast track to doing GUI's on python?

thanks

To create .exe's you will need to get py2exe:

http://www.py2exe.org/

I would add +1 to wxPython. It takes a little while to get going,
IMHO it is the best Python GUI for Windows (it is also cross-
platform if that interests you).

-Larry

 

[Gerard Flanagan]

I'm learning how to program python. a few questions

a) I'm mostly interested in creating exe's that have to do with music
-- things to help me keep track of chord progressions, transpositions,
etc. can anyone point me in the direction of resources on this?

b) I'm also interested in created GUI's sooner rather than later. Can
anyone point me to a fast track to doing GUI's on python?

thanks

Hi Omar

are you aware of lilypond, used for typesetting music? (not what you
asked about I know!). 'lilycomp' is a simple (tkinter) gui for
creating lilypond markup, maybe some ideas there.

http://lilypond.org/web/

http://lilycomp.sourceforge.net/

hope that helps.

Gerard

 

[Omar]

Hi Omar

are you aware of lilypond, used for typesetting music? (not what you
asked about I know!). 'lilycomp' is a simple (tkinter) gui for
creating lilypond markup, maybe some ideas there.

http://lilypond.org/web/

http://lilycomp.sourceforge.net/

hope that helps.

Gerard

thank you Larry and thank you Gerard! People on this forum are
apparantly quite cool.