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I would like to migrate a PyGtk (&PyUSB) application using GLADE and CSS files from a Debian9 (linux) PC into a Windows10 PC. What would be the recommendation? a) rewrite in PyQt? b) rewrite in C++ & Qt? c) .. just implement a Python and Gtk environment in Windows10? Perhaps there is not a general answer and I should try c) before I rewrite the whole application? Any recommendation is welcome (I dont know Qt and C++.. so, it could be time consuming to do a) or b) for me). Any new recommendation is welcome.

The PyGtk application starts with 

import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk as gtk, Gdk as gdk, GLib, GObject as gobject
gobject.threads_init()
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import time
import threading
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First, this is not PyGTK (GTK2 bindings for python). This is PyGObject (which includes GTK3 bindings).

Option c) is possible with:

  1. Just a normal install of Python for Windows and an .exe installer of the PyGObject library. But it only supports up to Python 3.4 (32 and 64 bits).
  2. A MSYS2 install as described in the PyGObject docs which supports up to Python 3.7 I believe.

Rewrite in PyQt5/PySide2 seems like a good plan B if for some reason the porting is too troublesome. I don't have much experience with it, but I read good things and initial tests seem to work fine.

Daniel F.
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  • not on time, but with python 2.7 everything should work easier(I use3.4 for compatibiliy reason on win32). Plus, pyusb works well, I have an app for industrial scale (from get value to pdf raport and papers) in 2.7 that still work – cox Sep 04 '18 at 17:44