Re: [Pyqwt-users] PyQt5 and Python 3.6 compatibility

[Discussion a. h. l. f. P. u. <pyq...@li...>]

On 28/07/2017 11:49, Discussion and help list for PyQwt users wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 11:11:39 +0200, Discussion and help list for PyQwt
> users wrote:
>
>> I haven't worked with what Uwe is recommending (PyQt-Qwt), but I see
>> that is the latest attempt at wrapping his Qwt6 C++ library into a
>> python binding.
> It is no attempt, it is the same what PyQwt did for Qwt5. The only 
> reason, that it didn't happen before is: nobody did it.

It is a pity that there is no good python binding to Qwt. That said
there is more than one reason.

Perhaps one of them is the fact nobody tried a binding independent of
the binding used for Qt with all the associated licensing and version
matching issues. With the evolution of Cython that may be possible, but
at this moment the effort seems too high because former PyQwt users have
chosen other solutions either based on directly using Qt (pyqtgraph,
PythonQwt), on using OpenGL (visvis, vispy), on using other libraries
(matplotlib, chaco,...) or on making an abstraction in order not to rely
on a unique graphics library (like silx that can use either matplotlib
or OpenGL at this point).