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Re:Electron as GUI of Python Applications by seletz on Saturday June 27, 2015 @04:12PM (#9791395)
An alternative to wrapping things in node might be to use the chrome embedded bindings for python:

https://code.google.com/p/cefpython/

This has the advantage to not have to start a web server -- just make python objects visible directly in JS.

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Re:Electron as GUI of Python Applications by seletz on Saturday June 27, 2015 @04:30PM (#9791439)
Well, on a second look: cefpython currently requires the user to pass in a UI window. That's apparently quite easy to do on windows using pywin32, but nevertheless -- It's maybe quite hefty -- one might as well use QT, then.
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