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The latest iteration of PyQt is v5.10.1. It fully supports Qt 5.10.1. The latest iteration of PyQt is v5.11.3. It fully supports Qt 5.11.2.

About PyQt

PyQt is one of the most popular Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform C++ framework. PyQt developed by Riverbank Computing Limited. Qt itself is developed as part of the Qt Project. PyQt provides bindings for Qt 4 and Qt 5. PyQt is distributed under a choice of licences: GPL version 3 or a commercial license.

PyQt is available in two editions: PyQt4 which will build against Qt 4.x and 5.x and PyQt5 which will only build against 5.x. Both editions can be built for Python 2 and 3. PyQt contains over 620 classes that cover graphical user interfaces, XML handling, network communication, SQL databases, Web browsing and other technologies available in Qt.

The latest iteration of PyQt is v5.11.3. It fully supports Qt 5.11.2.

PyQt4 runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and various UNIX platforms. PyQt5 also runs on Android and iOS.

PyQt Documentation

Current documentation is available for PyQt4 and PyQt5.

A collection of links to books can be found on the Books page.

  • Mark Summerfield's book, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt, is a guide to GUI application development with Python 2.5, PyQt4 and Qt 4.2/4.3. More information can be found at http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html. Mark recommends, incidentally, GUI Bloopers, as appropriate supplementary reading for PyQt programmers.

On this Wiki, you can find the following tutorials:

Developing with PyQt and PyKDE

PyQt Applications

A list of applications that use PyQt as their UI layer can be found on the Some Existing Applications page. This replaces the list previously found here.

Similarly, the Third Party Packages and Modules page provides a list of resources that can be used to help build applications with certain features.

A collection of Sample Code is also available to help with specific problems and use cases.

The official mailing list is a high signal-to-noise discussion list for PyQt users and developers.

Phil Thompson was interviewed about PyQt for KDE Dot News in August 2006, and profiled for SunWorld Online in 2000.

Earlier Versions

This section describes PyQt version 3 (for Qt 3).

PyQt implements around 300 classes and over 5,750 functions and methods including:

  • a substantial set of GUI widgets
  • classes for accessing SQL databases (ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)

  • QScintilla, Scintilla-based rich text editor widget

  • data aware widgets that are automatically populated from a database
  • an XML parser
  • SVG support
  • classes for embedding ActiveX controls on Windows (only in commercial version)

Earlier versions of PyQt included a graphical debugger called eric, written using PyQt, which can be used to debug PyQt and ordinary Python console applications. It's now available separately as eric4 from http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/index.html.

PyQt includes pyuic which generates Python code from GUI designs created with Qt Designer. This makes PyQt very useful as a rapid prototyping tool for applications that will eventually be (partly or completely) implemented in C++ because the user interface designs can be re-used without modification.


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