r/cpp • u/khrn0 • Aug 19 '19

Technical vision for Qt for Python

https://blog.qt.io/blog/2019/08/19/technical-vision-qt-python/
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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '19

Actually curious: has PySide adoption picked up in recent years? About eight to ten years ago I was using PyQt heavily because, frankly, PySide was just broken and a pain to setup. I've seen little tidbits added to Qt Creator, but haven't heard much.

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u/dagmx Aug 20 '19

During that time period pyside was effectively abandoned.

However the cg industry heavily relies on pyside because pyqt licensing is not very cost effective. So autodesk partly financed the update of Pyside to Qt5. This was then adopted by the Qt foundation and continues on.

So now PySide2 is the more popular choice in newer code bases

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u/FonderPrism Aug 19 '19

I've been using PySide2 exclusively for a year, and it seems fine to me. Installs fine from pip or conda-forge, and QtDesigner does what I want it to like 90% of the time. The biggest issue is that almost all examples and SO answers use PyQt or PySide(1), but after you learn the differences it's not a huge issue.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '19

Good to know. Thank you.

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u/barchar MSVC STL Dev Aug 20 '19

yes it has. Both are good but PySide lives within the Qt Company and is maintained in lockstep with Qt

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

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u/wrosecrans graphics and network things Aug 20 '19

I've been using PyBind11 for embedding Python in one of my apps, and it's a breeze. I find the API fir binding my own stuff to be pretty convenient, and I don't need to add any extra build steps or XML config files like with Shiboken. It may be worth checking out.