The beauty of pyGTK and Glade is they have opened up cross-platform, professional-quality GUI development to those of us who'd rather be doing other things but who still need a GUI on top of it all.

Writing GUI programs involves two basic steps. First, you need to write the code to create the interface, with elements, such as menus, and widgets, such as buttons, labels and entry fields. You then ...

Python falls short in a few areas. For instance, Python isn’t the fastest language around, but third-party libraries like NumPy let you work around that. Where Python is most deficient, though, is ...