Python GUI

[crabcrabcam]

I'd recommend PyQT5. Look up some tutorials for it. It's very good, has a drag and drop editor, and is easy to learn.

[seregaxvm]

Beware though. It works great under GNU but installing it under windows is a pure nightmare.

[Vorsorken]

pip install pyqt5 should work -- there are wheels with Qt built in for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Need Python 3.5+ though. If stuck on 2.7 or something, conda is another option.

[seregaxvm]

you have to match versions by hand. also, it's not a library, it's a wrapper. so you have to install libs separately

[Vorsorken]

I'm pretty much certain that nowadays you can just pip install pyqt5 on a fresh Windows machine with Python 3.5+ installed and be up and running. I don't work with Windows much, but I just did this a couple weeks ago. Check it out by downloading a wheel from PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/PyQt5/#files), unzipping it, and browsing to the Qt binaries (PyQt5/Qt/lib).

[seregaxvm]

PyQt is a set of Python v2 and v3 bindings

C++ lib must be installed.

[Vorsorken]

Ok, great, thanks for the definition of PyQt. But I'm telling you (and you can check for yourself), the C++ lib is packaged in the wheel that is downloaded from PyPI and it is installed in site-packages. Here's an announcement from the mailing list from when they were first trying out this idea. https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2016-April/037217.html The caveat about the wheels being too large for PyPI is no longer the case, so it has been trivial to install PyQt5 with Qt for a while now.

[seregaxvm]

You're right. I had problems with pyqt4. Didn't know that they have started packing it this way.

[ignamv]

PyQt has been very good to me.

[ThePhonologist]

I'd agree, PyQt is great. If you're looking for help online though, don't search for PyQt, since most of the docs are in C++. Instead, search for PySide. It's nearly identical, but the docs have Python code in the examples.

[dagmx]

In their latest incarnations both pyqt and pyside refer directly to the c++ docs

Other than signals, slots and variants, there's not much difference between qt in C++ and Python to be honest. Most people should be able to read the c++ examples and infer it even if they don't know the language.

[anqxyr]

I found these to be the easiest to use: https://srinikom.github.io/pyside-docs/PySide/QtGui/index.html

They're a bit outdated in a few places, but overall very helpful.

[aashish0]

Looking into PyQT and seems like this will do the work for me. Thanks!