Qt for Python¶
Qt for Python offers Python bindings for Qt, enabling the use of Qt5 APIs in Python applications. It lets Python developers utilize the full potential of Qt, using the PySide2 module.
The PySide2 module provides access to the individual Qt modules such as QtCore, QtGui, and so on. Qt for Python also comes with the Shiboken2 CPython binding code generator, which can be used to generate Python bindings for your C or C++ code.
Qt Modules¶
Basic modules¶
These are the main modules that will help you build a Widget based UI.
- Qt Core
Provides core non-GUI functionality, like signal and slots, properties, base classes of item models, serialization, etc.
- Qt Gui
Extends QtCore with GUI functionality: Events, windows and screens, OpenGL and raster-based 2D painting, images.
- Qt Widgets
Ready to use Widgets for your application, including also graphical elements for your UI.
QML and Qt Quick¶
If you want to use the Qml Language <https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmlapplications.html>, these modules will help you interact with it from Python.
- Qt Qml
Base Python API to interact with the QML module.
- Qt Quick
Provides classes for embedding Qt Quick in Qt applications.
- Qt QuickWidgets
Provides the QQuickWidget class for embedding Qt Quick in widget-based applications.
Data visualization¶
Charts, diagrams, animations: these modules provide a large amount of classes that can help you include these elements in your UI.
- Qt Charts
Provides a set of easy to use chart components.
- Qt DataVisualization
Provides a way to visualize data in 3D as bar, scatter, and surface graphs.
Multimedia¶
Audio, video, and hardware interaction: check these modules if you are looking for multimedia solutions.
- Qt Multimedia
Provides low-level multimedia functionality.
- Qt MultimediaWidgets
Provides the widget-based multimedia API.
WebEngine¶
If your project is based on a browser or the features around web based applications, these modules will help you to interact with them.
- Qt WebEngineWidgets
Provides widgets that can handle web content.
- Qt WebChannel
Enables peer-to-peer communication between a server and a client (HTML/JavaScript or QML application).
All the modules¶
There are many other modules currently supported by PySide2, here you can find a complete list of them.
- Check all the modules
Display a table with all the currently supported Qt modules.
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