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Re:PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018 by ptx on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @05:29PM (#18070642)
Agreed, but you can use those from Python, through pywin32 and (for a few rare things that are missing in the former) ctypes.

(If you're on Windows. On Linux, Qt could be considered native. On Mac there is PyObjC. )

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Re:PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018 by toyg on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @05:47PM (#18070787)
Pywin32 to call native apis for GUIs sounds very, very painful. I had a few run-ins with pywin32 and COM automation, I don’t think I could bear the thought of developing a full UI with that sort of hacks. At that point, might as well go C# (or IronPython, if it’s still around) and enjoy the VS goodies.
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Re:PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018 by ptx on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @06:12PM (#18070986)
COM might have its issues, but I meant using the win32gui, win32api etc. modules to call the native win32 C API for UI. That's hardly a hack, and perhaps even slightly less painful than doing it from C. (I'm only using it for some fairly small things, though.)
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