Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
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HN comment orderHey, what the -- this is my thing. ^_^ What's it doing at the top of HN? A quick reply to some of the comments about argparse. Gooey is super old at this point. Argparse was a solid choice at the time when Gooey started. These days, Gooey itself speaks in JSON and is decoupled from argparse itself. However, argparse remains the main "blessed" interface (mostly because nobody else has built a different one). Some fun FYIs: You can also…
Gooey is a brilliant bit of software. We use it in combination with Python Fire [0] to easily convert python code to something that users can interact with. Python fire converts our python code into a CLI without all the manual parameter parsing, and Gooey turns the CLI into a simple GUI. [0] https://github.com/google/python-fire
Similar workflow for Macs: http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus + http://mstratman.github.io/cocoadialog/ or http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/pashua/
A recent discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27490291
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1976
- Total comments
- 309
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-24 | Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applicationsFirst breakout | ayberkt | 486 | 74 |
| 2014-11-16 | Gooey – Turn (almost) any Python CLI into a full GUI with one line | joeyespo | 3 | 1 |
| 2018-02-07 | Adding GUI to Python CLI with One Liner | ausjke | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-04-20 | Gooey: Turn (almost) any Python Console Program into a GUI application | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-06-13 | Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI applicationHall induction | sandebert | 693 | 115 |
| 2023-01-09 | Gooey: Turn (almost) any Python Console Program into a GUI application | Tomte | 20 | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI applicationBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | lsferreira42 | 769 | 118 |