Install PySide2 on Windows
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This tutorial is also available for PyQt6 , PySide6 , PyQt5 and Tkinter

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Before you start coding you will first need to have a working installation of PySide2 on your system. If you don't have PySide2 set up yet, the following sections will guide you through how to do this on Windows, macOS and Linux.

This guide is also available for macOS and Linux.

Installation on Windows

PySide2 for Windows can be installed as for any other application or library. As of Qt 5.6 installers are available to install via PyPi, the Python Package archive. To install PySide2 from Python3 simply run --

bash 
pip3 install pyside2

After install is finished, you should be able to run python and import PySide2.

Note that if you want access to Qt Designer or Qt Creator you will need to download this from https://qt.io/download[the Qt downloads site].

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Install PySide2 on Windows was written by Martin Fitzpatrick .

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.

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