There are three reasons, none of them terribly good in isolation.

1. I build business applications, not graphics applications, so the "basic" GTK was precisely what I needed.
2. PyCairo is (to me) a fairly recent innovation, and my GTK knowledge is a few years old.
3. Cairo requires a more complex technology …

Here's a simple graphic application which is built on the graphicApp.py framework. This isn't a beginner's hello world. This is the final project kind of program, and only for a student with some trigonometry background. The basic trig isn't too complex, but would require rather detailed documentation to motivate …

Background.

The suggested environment for learning to program using graphics instead of text was LiveWires . This includes a curriculum and associated product, making it a tidy package.

There are a number of alternatives, however.

• Python includes tkinter , section 20.1 of the Python Library Reference, v2.5.
• Python includes turtle …

Some additional Sugar notes recently appeared in "Plumbing Life's Depths ".

After attending PyCon, I polished up my GTK environment, reloading the current releases. Here's what I did to get a workable PyGTK on my various desktops.

The GTK Technology Stack

Here's an overview of the components of this stack:

1. GLIB …