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It's worse than that actually, as in some cases the single underscore is actually meaningful (see the SO question linked in [1]). My recommendation is always to use a double underscore for throwaway variables, particularly since dropping into an interactive terminal can be really useful in some particularly hairy debugging situations (there's a great pycon talk about when it's a good idea to do gross things like that during debugging [2]).

Guietta looks interesting, but at a certain point if you're going to go with a visual representation of your gui to automatically generate it, you might as well go the whole docopt-style way and just have the whole gui defined in a docstring. That give you flexibility to have your own DSL as well (or jinja2 templates, or whatever), if you so decide, instead of needing to shoehorn python lists into the job. Plus that way you could actually modify the layout spacing, without much increase in complexity.

That being said, my usual recommendation for "I need a simple python GUI" is Toga [3]. The only downside is that Windows support is lagging behind MacOS and Linux, but it's not that far behind, so for simple stuff that should be reasonably acceptable.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5893163/what-is-the-purp...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAcfPzxB3dk

[3] https://toga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/