macOS Help with Python GTK.

[natatos]

Hi, I'm trying to learn how to program so I'm really new to this and I thought python would be good because it seemed simple and its cross platform, so I was watching a tutorial on YouTube for making a window.
Heres the code

#!/usr/bin/env Python

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

class Base:
    def __init__(self):
        self.Window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
        self.Window.show()

    def main(self):
        gtk.main()
        
if __name__ == "__main__":
    base = Base()
    base.main()

When I try to run it it says 'No module named pygtk' I'm used Text Wrangler for it and got that result but if I write it in Terminal I get basically the same thing. So I'm wondering how would I have it find the pygtk, or not need it?

 

[KnightWRX]

If you want to write GUI code using GTK (and follow the GTK tutorials), you cannot be without pygtk unfortunately. OS X support for pygtk is either through X11 or through a very early native port that requires building GTK yourself :

http://faq.pygtk.org/index.py?req=show&file=faq01.019.htp

Of course, you probably want PyObjC instead. You'll have to find tutorials on it obviously and can't use the pygtk stuff, but Apple seems to have a good primer here :

http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/pyobjc.html

BTW, yes, Python is a good place to start coding. I would however suggest you put aside the GUI stuff for now and concentrate on learning to code. Just use a text mode interface using only the print function.