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Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework

Project description

Introduction

PySide is the Python Qt bindings project, providing access the complete Qt 4.8 framework as well as to generator tools for rapidly generating bindings for any C++ libraries.

The PySide project is developed in the open, with all facilities you’d expect from any modern OSS project such as all code in a git repository [1], an open Bugzilla [2] for reporting bugs, and an open design process [3]. We welcome any contribution without requiring a transfer of copyright.

Compatibility

PySide requires Python 2.6 or later and Qt 4.6 or better.

Installation

Installing prerequisities

Install latest distribute distribution: download distribute_setup.py and run it using the python interpreter.

Installing PySide on a Windows System

There are two options to install PySide on Windows:

  1. Download and install the packages from the releases page.

  2. Use setuptools:

    c:\> c:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install PySide
    c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe c:\Python27\Scripts\pyside_postinstall.py -install

    Note that the post-install procedure is not needed when installing via installer. The installer calls the pyside_postinstall.py script automatically.

Installing PySide on a UNIX System

There are no prebuild setuptools distributions available for UNIX System. To build and install setuptools compatible distributions for UNIX System, please read the instructions in section Building PySide on a UNIX System.

Using pip vs easy_install

Pip can install only from source (it does not support binary distributions) and allways rebuilds the distribution before the distribution is installed to system. For that reason the recommended tool to install the PySide is easy_install.

Building PySide on a Windows System

Installing prerequisities

  1. Install Python.

  2. Install Qt 4.8 libraries for Windows (VS 2008).

  3. Install Cmake.

  4. Install Visual Studio Express 2008 when building against Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.2. Install Visual Studio Express 2010 when building against Python 3.3.

  5. Install Git.

  6. (Optional) Install OpenSSL.

  7. Install latest distribute distribution into the Python you installed in the first step: download distribute_setup.py and run it using the python interpreter of your Python 2.7 installation using a command prompt:

    c:\> c:\Python27\python distribute_setup.py

Building PySide distribution

  1. Clone PySide setup scripts from git repository:

    c:\> git clone https://github.com/PySide/pyside-setup.git pyside-setup
  2. Switch to the pyside-setup directory:

    c:\> cd pyside-setup
  3. Build PySide windows installer:

    c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py bdist_wininst --qmake=c:\Qt\4.8.4\bin\qmake.exe --openssl=c:\OpenSSL32bit\bin
  4. Optionally you can specify the msvc compiler version:

    c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py bdist_wininst --msvc-version=10.0 --qmake=c:\Qt\4.8.4\bin\qmake.exe --openssl=c:\OpenSSL32bit\bin
  5. After the successful build, install the distribution with easy_install and run the post-install script:

    c:\> c:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install dist\PySide-1.1.2.win32-py2.7.exe
    c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe c:\Python27\Scripts\pyside_postinstall.py -install
    
    # After successfull install, the post-install script should print the following information to the console:
    
    c:\> The PySide extensions were successfully installed.

Building PySide on a UNIX System (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)

Installing prerequisities

  1. Install Python 2.7 header files and a static library:

    $ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev
  2. Install Qt 4.8 libraries:

    $ sudo apt-get install qt-sdk
  3. Install cmake:

    $ sudo apt-get install cmake
  4. Install git:

    $ sudo apt-get install git
  5. Install latest distribute distribution into the Python you installed in the first step: download distribute_setup.py and run it using the python interpreter of your Python 2.7 installation using a command prompt:

    $ sudo python2.7 distribute_setup.py

Building PySide distribution

  1. Clone PySide setup scripts from git repository:

    $ git clone https://github.com/PySide/pyside-setup.git pyside-setup
  2. Switch to the pyside-setup directory:

    $ cd pyside-setup
  3. Build PySide distribution:

    $ python2.7 setup.py bdist_egg
  4. Optionally you can build standalone version of distribution with embedded Qt libs:

    $ python2.7 setup.py bdist_egg --standalone
  5. After the successful build, install the distribution with easy_install and run the post-install script:

    $ sudo easy_install-2.7 dist/PySide-1.1.2.egg
    $ sudo python2.7 pyside_postinstall.py -install
    
    # After successfull install, the post-install script should print the following information to the console:
    
    $ PySide package successfully installed in...

PySide Setup Script command line options

Usage on Windows System

c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py [distribution_type] [options]

Usage on UNIX System

python2.7 setup.py [distribution_type] [options]

Distribution types

bdist_wininst

Create standalone windows installer with embedded Qt libs and development tools. This distribution type can be installed with easy_install.

bdist_egg

Create egg binary distribution. This distribution type can be installed with easy_install.

install

Install package to site packages folder.

develop

Install package in development mode, such that it’s available on sys.path, yet can still be edited directly from its source folder.

sdist

Create full source distribution with included sources of PySide Setup Scripts, PySide, Shiboken, PySide Tools and PySide Examples. Can be used to build binary distribution in offline mode.

Options

--qmake

Specify the path to qmake. Useful when the qmake is not in path or more than one Qt versions are installed.

--openssl

Specify the path to OpenSSL libs.

--only-package

Skip rebuilding everything and create distribution from prebuilt binaries. Before using this option first time, the full distribution build is required.

--cmake

Specify the path to cmake. Useful when the cmake is not in path.

--msvc-version

Specify the Visual C++ compiler version. Supported values are 9.0 (for VS 2008), 10.0 (for VS 2010), 11.0 (for VS 2012).

--standalone

When enabled, all required Qt libs will be included in PySide distribution. This option is allways enabled on Windows System. On Linux it’s disabled by default.

--version

Specify what version of PySide distribution to build. This option is available only when the setup scripts are cloned from git repository.

--list-versions

List available versions of PySide distributions.

--ignore-git

Don’t pull sources from git repository.

--make-spec

Specify the cmake makefile generator type. Available values are msvc on Windows System and make on UNIX System.

Feedback and getting involved

Changes

1.1.2 (2012-08-28)

Bug fixes

  • During signal emission don’t get return type after callback

  • Invalidate QStandardModel::invisibleRootItem in clear() method

  • QAbstractItemModel has wrong ownership policy for selectionModel()

  • Improved QVector to python conversion

  • Disable docstring generation if tools aren’t found.

  • Fixed some issues compiling PySide using VC++

  • Install the shiboken module to site-packages

  • Fix compilation when there is no libxslt installed on the system.

  • Set a default hash function for all ObjectTypes.

  • Fix segfault calling shiboken.dump

1.1.1 (2012-04-19)

Major changes

  • Unified toolchain! No more GeneratorRunner and ApiExtractor, now you just need Shiboken to compile PySide.

Bug fixes

  • 1105 Spyder fails with HEAD

  • 1126 Segfault when exception is raised in signalInstanceDisconnect

  • 1135 SIGSEGV when loading custom widget using QUiLoader when overriding createWidget()

  • 1041 QAbstractItemModel has wrong ownership policy for selectionModel()

  • 1086 generatorrunner segfault processing #include

  • 1110 Concurrency error causes GC heap corruption

  • 1113 Instantiating QObject in user-defined QML element’s constructor crashes if instantiated from QML

  • 1129 Segmentation fault on close by QStandardItem/QStandardItemModel

  • 1104 QSettings has problems with long integers

  • 1108 tests/QtGui/pyside_reload_test.py fails when bytecode writing is disabled

  • 1138 Subclassing of QUiLoader leads to “Internal C++ object already deleted” exception (again)

  • 1124 QPainter.drawPixmapFragments should take a list as first argument

  • 1065 Invalid example in QFileDialog documentation

  • 1092 shiboken names itself a ‘generator’

  • 1094 shiboken doesn’t complain about invalid options

  • 1044 Incorrect call to parent constructor in example

  • 1139 Crash at exit due to thread state (tstate) being NULL

  • PYSIDE-41 QModelIndex unhashable

1.1.0 (2012-01-02)

Major changes

  • New type converter scheme

Bug fixes

  • 1010 Shiboken Cygwin patch

  • 1034 Error compiling PySide with Python 3.2.2 32bit on Windows

  • 1040 pyside-uic overwriting attributes before they are being used

  • 1053 pyside-lupdate used with .pro files can’t handle Windows paths that contain spaces

  • 1060 Subclassing of QUiLoader leads to “Internal C++ object already deleted” exception

  • 1063 Bug writing to files using “QTextStream + QFile + QTextEdit” on Linux

  • 1069 QtCore.QDataStream silently fails on writing Python string

  • 1077 Application exit crash when call QSyntaxHighlighter.document()

  • 1082 OSX binary links are broken

  • 1083 winId returns a PyCObject making it impossible to compare two winIds

  • 1084 Crash (segfault) when writing unicode string on socket

  • 1091 PixmapFragment and drawPixmapFragments are not bound

  • 1095 No examples for shiboken tutorial

  • 1097 QtGui.QShortcut.setKey requires QKeySequence

  • 1101 Report invalid function signatures in typesystem

  • 902 Expose Shiboken functionality through a Python module

  • 969 viewOptions of QAbstractItemView error

1.0.9 (2011-11-29)

Bug fixes

  • 1058 Strange code in PySide/QtUiTools/glue/plugins.h

  • 1057 valgrind detected “Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value”

  • 1052 PySideConfig.cmake contains an infinite loop due to missing default for SHIBOKEN_PYTHON_SUFFIX

  • 1048 QGridLayout.itemAtPosition() crashes when it should return None

  • 1037 shiboken fails to build against python 3.2 (both normal and -dbg) on i386 (and others)

  • 1036 Qt.KeyboardModifiers always evaluates to zero

  • 1033 QDialog.DialogCode instances and return value from QDialog.exec_ hash to different values

  • 1031 QState.parentState() or QState.machine() causes python crash at exit

  • 1029 qmlRegisterType Fails to Increase the Ref Count

  • 1028 QWidget winId missing

  • 1016 Calling of Q_INVOKABLE method returning not QVariant is impossible…

  • 1013 connect to QSqlTableModel.primeInsert() causes crash

  • 1012 FTBFS with hardening flags enabled

  • 1011 PySide Cygwin patch

  • 1010 Shiboken Cygwin patch

  • 1009 GeneratorRunner Cygwin patch

  • 1008 ApiExtractor Cygwin patch

  • 891 ApiExtractor doesn’t support doxygen as backend to doc generation.

1.0.8 (2011-10-21)

Major changes

  • Experimental Python3.2 support

  • Qt4.8 beta support

Bug fixes

  • 1022 RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while getting the str of an object

  • 1019 Overriding QWidget.show or QWidget.hide do not work

  • 944 Segfault on QIcon(None).pixmap()

1.0.7 (2011-09-21)

Bug fixes

  • 996 Missing dependencies for QtWebKit in buildscripts for Fedora

  • 986 Documentation links

  • 985 Provide versioned pyside-docs zip file to help packagers

  • 981 QSettings docs should empathize the behavior changes of value() on different platforms

  • 902 Expose Shiboken functionality through a Python module

  • 997 QDeclarativePropertyMap doesn’t work.

  • 994 QIODevice.readData must use qmemcpy instead of qstrncpy

  • 989 Pickling QColor fails

  • 987 Disconnecting a signal that has not been connected

  • 973 shouldInterruptJavaScript slot override is never called

  • 966 QX11Info.display() missing

  • 959 can’t pass QVariant to the QtWebkit bridge

  • 1006 Segfault in QLabel init

  • 1002 Segmentation fault on PySide/Spyder exit

  • 998 Segfault with Spyder after switching to another app

  • 995 QDeclarativeView.itemAt returns faulty reference. (leading to SEGFAULT)

  • 990 Segfault when trying to disconnect a signal that is not connected

  • 975 Possible memory leak

  • 991 The __repr__ of various types is broken

  • 988 The type supplied with currentChanged signal in QTabWidget has changed in 1.0.6

1.0.6 (2011-08-22)

Major changes

  • New documentation layout;

  • Fixed some regressions from the last release (1.0.5);

  • Optimizations during anonymous connection;

Bug fixes

  • 972 anchorlayout.py of graphicsview example raised a unwriteable memory exception when exits

  • 953 Segfault when QObject is garbage collected after QTimer.singeShot

  • 951 ComponentComplete not called on QDeclarativeItem subclass

  • 965 Segfault in QtUiTools.QUiLoader.load

  • 958 Segmentation fault with resource files

  • 944 Segfault on QIcon(None).pixmap()

  • 941 Signals with QtCore.Qt types as arguments has invalid signatures

  • 964 QAbstractItemView.moveCursor() method is missing

  • 963 What’s This not displaying QTableWidget column header information as in Qt Designer

  • 961 QColor.__repr__/__str__ should be more pythonic

  • 960 QColor.__reduce__ is incorrect for HSL colors

  • 950 implement Q_INVOKABLE

  • 940 setAttributeArray/setUniformValueArray do not take arrays

  • 931 isinstance() fails with Signal instances

  • 928 100’s of QGraphicItems with signal connections causes slowdown

  • 930 Documentation mixes signals and functions.

  • 923 Make QScriptValue (or QScriptValueIterator) implement the Python iterator protocol

  • 922 QScriptValue’s repr() should give some information about its data

  • 900 QtCore.Property as decorator

  • 895 jQuery version is outdated, distribution code de-duplication breaks documentation search

  • 731 Can’t specify more than a single ‘since’ argument

  • 983 copy.deepcopy raises SystemError with QColor

  • 947 NETWORK_ERR during interaction QtWebKit window with server

  • 873 Deprecated methods could emit DeprecationWarning

  • 831 PySide docs would have a “Inherited by” list for each class

1.0.5 (2011-07-22)

Major changes

  • Widgets present on “ui” files are exported in the root widget, check PySide ML thread for more information[1];

  • pyside-uic generate menubars without parent on MacOS plataform;

  • Signal connection optimizations;

Bug fixes

  • 892 Segfault when destructing QWidget and QApplication has event filter installed

  • 407 Crash while multiple inheriting with QObject and native python class

  • 939 Shiboken::importModule must verify if PyImport_ImportModule succeeds

  • 937 missing pid method in QProcess

  • 927 Segfault on QThread code.

  • 925 Segfault when passing a QScriptValue as QObject or when using .toVariant() on a QScriptValue

  • 905 QtGui.QHBoxLayout.setMargin function call is created by pyside-uic, but this is not available in the pyside bindings

  • 904 Repeatedly opening a QDialog with Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose set crashes PySide

  • 899 Segfault with ‘QVariantList’ Property.

  • 893 Shiboken leak reference in the parent control

  • 878 Shiboken may generate incompatible modules if a new class is added.

  • 938 QTemporaryFile JPEG problem

  • 934 A __getitem__ of QByteArray behaves strange

  • 929 pkg-config files do not know about Python version tags

  • 926 qmlRegisterType does not work with QObject

  • 924 Allow QScriptValue to be accessed via []

  • 921 Signals not automatically disconnected on object destruction

  • 920 Cannot use same slot for two signals

  • 919 Default arguments on QStyle methods not working

  • 915 QDeclarativeView.scene().addItem(x) make the x object invalid

  • 913 Widgets inside QTabWidget are not exported as members of the containing widget

  • 910 installEventFilter() increments reference count on target object

  • 907 pyside-uic adds MainWindow.setMenuBar(self.menubar) to the generated code under OS X

  • 903 eventFilter in ItemDelegate

  • 897 QObject.property() and QObject.setProperty() methods fails for user-defined properties

  • 896 QObject.staticMetaObject() is missing

  • 916 Missing info about when is possible to use keyword arguments in docs [was: QListWidgetItem’s constructor ignores text parameter]

  • 890 Add signal connection example for valueChanged(int) on QSpinBox to the docs

  • 821 Mapping interface for QPixmapCache

  • 909 Deletion of QMainWindow/QApplication leads to segmentation fault

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