Martin Fitzpatrick
Senior Software Engineer, Python Tutor

Martin Fitzpatrick has been developing Python/Qt apps for 8 years. Building desktop applications to make data-analysis tools more user-friendly, Python was the obvious choice. Starting with Tk, later moving to wxWidgets and finally adopting PyQt.

PyQt5

My pyqt5 application freezes when I don't use partial function

Published 29.03.2021
PyQt6
PyQt6 Tutorial

System tray & Mac menu bar applications

Add quick access functions to your apps

Pyside6: click text on QPixMap

Published 21.03.2021

Create a Settings window

Published 18.03.2021

How to get the PyQt version number?

Find out which version of PyQt or PySide you're running

What modules are missing from PySide6 & PyQt6?

The Qt extension modules not yet available in Qt 6.1

PyQt6 & PySide6 Book now available!

Published 15.03.2021

What replaces PyQt5.QtMultimedia / PySide2.QtMultimedia in PyQt6 / PySide6, if anything?

Published 15.03.2021
PySide6

PySide6 Book now available: Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6

The hands-on guide to making apps with Python

PyQt6 vs PySide6

What's the difference between the two Python Qt libraries? ...and what's exactly the same (most of it)
PyQt5

treeView.selectedIndexes() returns same item multiple times

Published 11.03.2021
PyQt5

QTableWidget for List of Dict

Published 07.03.2021
PyQt5

What happens after defining `app`, but before executing it?

Published 05.03.2021
PySide6
PySide6 Tutorial

The ModelView Architecture updated

Qt's MVC-like interface for displaying data in views

PDF Report generator

Generate custom PDF reports using reportlab & pdfrw
PySide2
PySide2 Tutorial

Packaging PySide2 applications into a macOS app with PyInstaller

Turn your PySide2 application into a distributable app
PyQt5

Creating new windows on Qtdesigner based .py files

Published 21.02.2021
PyQt5

Import outside toplevel (bad or acceptable?)

Published 15.02.2021

About PyQt6 and PySide6

Published 12.02.2021

Transparent TextBrowser

Published 12.02.2021
PyQt5

How to create a filter (search Bar) for a qtablewidget

Published 11.02.2021
PyQt5

How to pass argument to user defined function in Qprocess

Published 11.02.2021
PyQt6
PyQt6 Tutorial

Displaying tabular data in Qt6 ModelViews

Create customized table views with conditional formatting, numpy and pandas data sources.
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