On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:09:13PM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:

I've only just really started to use Python, so this is very much a novice question.

I'd like to create a simple Python GUI to manage a configuration file. I'll be developing it on Ubuntu but it'll need to run cross-platform, which is one reason I picked Python.

Anyone here have any recommendations as to the best way to do this? Google gives me hundreds of options which is great but I'm after anecdotes from people I (feel I) know.

I've used two:-

Python GTK, package python-gtk2 in Ubuntu. To get started I found an existing example of a small[ish] GUI written with it and worked from there. It's fairly straightforward but it needs the standard "quite a lot of code" to do anything much, though once you have the basics in place you can concentrate on what you want it to do.

appjar, I found this very recently, it's essentially a wrapper for Tkinter but makes creating GUIs trivially simple. The writer is still active and will answer questions on GitHub. Very simple to install as it's a single module that you put on your Python Path. It's an excellent way to get a reasonably professional GUI up and running without a lot of effort. Don't be put off by the rather gaudy examples, I think they were probably written that way because it's been developed in an 'educational' environment.