pygtk does ... ?

[Thomas Bartkus]

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

[Dave Cook]

On 2005-07-08, Thomas Bartkus <th***********@comcast.net> wrote:

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?

The only reason I can think of is to use pygtk.require, so you can specify
which major version of pygtk you want to use, assuming you have multiple
versions:

import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk

Otherwise, you don't need to import pygtk, just gtk.

Dave Cook