python question?

[Jay Daniels]

Just wondering what software ubuntu developers use?  What about GUI or 
Gnome(GTK2) with python?

I have developed a simple program using Netbeans - note that this 
software is in early development, in fact dev has stopped while I 
explore other development tools.  ref here...

http://jaydanie.blogspot.com/2009/05/technotes-v020a.html

The problem with using automated tools when dealing with databases, if 
you want to make changes after the initial program is built and 
customized, I find this difficult with tools such as netbeans.  A newbie 
at this to say the least.  But I am unfamiliar with RAD tools in which 
you build the gui in one application and the code in the other.  This 
seems to be the norm in Linux desktop application design.

I realize that developing in C++ or Python may take longer than 
Netbeans, but I believe in the long run it will make the source more 
manageable and I might even be able to understand what's going on.  I 
have looked at a similar program built with QT Libs using C++ and I am 
amazed how small the source code files are!

Now that you have an idea what I want to do, what do you suggest?  Since 
I could take a trip down memory lane with pascal, I looked at Lazarus 
but the fonts are almost unreadable when installed from Ubuntu 
repositories and I failed to get the latest version from the site to 
install on 8.04.

I also prefer a multi platform rad environment, but this is not etched 
in stone.  We are currently running 8.04 LTS release and a Linux native 
application would be great.




jay