If I built some useful piece of python code to e.g. scrape a website or to calculate something big, at some point I might want to add a GUI to my project. For this I could use Tk, Qt, Pygame or any python graphic/GUI framework. Now I also want this tool to be usable by clients without the need for a python installation. Of course I could use something like py2Exe or py2Dmg. But wouldn't it be cooler to use a python-based web framework for this? Something like Django or Pyramid.What would be the drawbacks of doing this? Can I just use the framework to execute my code on a server and only return the result? Or will this get tricky when there are multiple users?
Using a web framework as python GUI
python;gui;django
Making a web UI will make it easier to extend, and update. But it will be another layer of complexity for you to deal with.I recommend looking at the lightweight http://webpy.org/     urls = (        '/hello', 'hello'    )    app = web.application(urls, globals())    class hello:                def POST(self, name):            #call your script hereYou can call this with POST localhost/helloBenefits:Portability: no installers, can access from anywhere.Extensibility: easyer to modify the UI (if you know HTML/CSS) and easier to re-deploy your application.drawbacks:Complexity: you will need to understand HTML, CSS request/response etc, set up a webserver or shared hosting,Security: don't make it public.