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I just took a look at delphi. What’s so unique about its ui builder?
It was (is?) very powerful and at the same time very easy to use. Not sure about alternatives nowadays...
This is like 10 years too late. This could have prevented electron.
Most interfaces created through web technology would be incredibly hard and slow to do using pyside/pyqt. We take for granted the non-blocking aspect of javasript where in python in order to make a slick interface would require to deal with threads/GIL in a much slower interpreted language compared with javascript running on V8. Qt (Qt Desktop) bindings for python are welcome. But, it's not a suitable for a viable re…
pip install --index-url=http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/pyside/5.9/latest/ pyside2 --trusted-host download.qt.io
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Has the python qt installation story improved much recently? A few years ago it was a pain to set up, especially within a virtualenv, which was one of my only complaints with it. Everything else was wonderful.
You can just do `pip install PyQt5` now. That is possible without a virtual environment, but in practice I think you still want to use one: python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate && pip install PyQt5.
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wxPython is a thing that exists, and I believe it has a similar mental model to wxWidgets. To be honest most of the QT solutions for Python are pretty fidgety . The recent wxPython releases (4.x) work out of the box direct from PyPI, not too much to worry about licensing. For Qt, it's... the licensing is usually just fine for people but it's complex enough to where things like maintaining your own fork (pretty easy i…
Qt license is pretty ok, it is just complicated for the typical crowd that wants to sell stuff built with free (beer) tools.
It's most definitely not the most complicated thing, but when your processes are based off of BSD'd libraries, you gotta think a bit harder about Qt usage, if only for it falling outside the normal scope of things.
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You can just do `pip install PyQt5` now. That is possible without a virtual environment, but in practice I think you still want to use one: python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate && pip install PyQt5.
pip installing binary dependencies! What could go wrong?
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You can just do `pip install PyQt5` now. That is possible without a virtual environment, but in practice I think you still want to use one: python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate && pip install PyQt5.
pip installing binary dependencies! What could go wrong?
On Linux you might want to get the distros qt/qt-dev packages, as usual. But as far as I can recall, you generally don't have to.
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wxPython is a thing that exists, and I believe it has a similar mental model to wxWidgets. To be honest most of the QT solutions for Python are pretty fidgety . The recent wxPython releases (4.x) work out of the box direct from PyPI, not too much to worry about licensing. For Qt, it's... the licensing is usually just fine for people but it's complex enough to where things like maintaining your own fork (pretty easy i…
Isn't the licensing LGPL3? How is this confusing?
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pip installing binary dependencies! What could go wrong?
What could go wrong?
But all of these things have improved greatly, in my recent experience.
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Most interfaces created through web technology would be incredibly hard and slow to do using pyside/pyqt. We take for granted the non-blocking aspect of javasript where in python in order to make a slick interface would require to deal with threads/GIL in a much slower interpreted language compared with javascript running on V8. Qt (Qt Desktop) bindings for python are welcome. But, it's not a suitable for a viable re…
We have asyncio now to handle things in a non-blocking way with async/await. Someone just needs to write an implementation of asyncio.AbstractEventLoop that hooks into the Qt event loop.