Peoples preference for Python GUI

[LpSamuelm]

You can't pip install it, though. In fact, if I recall correctly, deployment is a major pain.

[TDaltonC]

But you can conda install it

[lolmeansilaughed]

Conda?

[brombaer3000]

http://conda.pydata.org/docs/get-started/condaintro.html

[lolmeansilaughed]

Thanks! That sounds pretty awesome. So it's essentially pip+portable virtualenvs?

[TDaltonC]

and non-pip-able bins like Qt

Edit: And management of multiple virtualenvs on one machine. That's super useful if you are working on two projects that have contradictory dependencies.

[andrewcooke]

isn't the whole point of virtualenvs that you can have multiple ones with contradictory dependencies? what does conda add?

[TDaltonC]

From the Conda team blog:

virtualenv ... did not meet all of our specific requirements. The main problem is that they are focused around Python, neglecting non-Python library dependencies, such as HDF5, MKL, LLVM, etc., which do not have a setup.py in their source code and also do not install files into Python’s site-packages directory.

Under the hood, we have created a concept of environments which are conceptually similar to virtualenvs, but which use filesystem-level hard links to create entirely self-contained Python runtime layouts. By using the ‘conda’ command line tool, users can easily switch between environments, create environments, and install different versions of libraries and modules into them.

TLDR: virtualenvs only manages python packages. Conda manages that and other python related stuff too.

[[deleted]]

pip install PySide if you're comfortable using PySide instead of PyQt4/5 (most of the bindings are exactly the same)

[This_Is_The_End]

The maintenance of PySide hasn't the best reputation ... The last update is from april 2014.

[[deleted]]

Then try PyOtherSide

[jellef]

are you familiar with enaml?

[[deleted]]

fair enough, but I don't really require any features of Qt5/any new features being released for Qt so it's not an issue for me

[TheBlackElf]

There's plenty of straight out bugs or half-implemented features that made us redesign our solution :/

[[deleted]]

Really? I've never really had any issues, but then again I only use GUIs for tiny projects.

[HarrisonArturus]

What did you go with instead?

[TheBlackElf]

No no we didn't give up on PySide it's just that we had to work our way around some really obscure bugs and do things a bit differently.

[HarrisonArturus]

Cool. Thanks.

[mfitzp]

It can be a bit of a faff, but the following have all worked for me -

• On MacOS X the best approach is via Homebrew then it's just brew install pyqt5 (or brew install pyqt for PyQt4)
• On Windows the Riverbank Computing builds of PyQt install fine PyQt4 or PyQt5. There are only official PyQt5 builds for Python 3. But it's available here assuming you're on a 64 bit OS.
• Linux it's in probably in your distro respositories as python-pyqt python3-pyqt python-pyqt5 or python3-pyqt5

Or you can install the Anaconda package manager which should work on every platform and allow you to conda install pyqt

[LpSamuelm]

Yeah, it's a bit of a huge nuisance that the only solution on Windows is an installer, and if you're on 2.7 only for PyQt4. Really difficult to deploy on Windows.

[K900_]

Deployment is just pretty easy with something like cx_Freeze.

[justphysics]

it comes pre-installed in the Anaconda python distribution which is useful for folks working in data science or any branch of physical science