PyQt is a Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt. Applications built with PyQt will run on any platform supported by Qt & Python including Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS and Android.

Created by Riverbank Computing, PyQt is free software (GPL licensed) and has been in development since 1999. PyQt5 was released in 2016 and last updated in October 2021.

For a complete guide to desktop application development with Python & PyQt, see the PyQt5 tutorial and my PyQt5 book Create Simple GUI Applications with Python & Qt.

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Drag & Drop Widgets with PyQt6

Sort widgets visually with drag and drop in a container

QLineEdit

A Simple Text Input Widget

How to Create a Custom Title Bar for a PyQt Window

Customize Your Python App's Title Bars

How to Restore the Window's Geometry in a PyQt App

Make Your Windows Remember Their Last Geometry

How Trademarks Affect Open Source Software

How do trademarks relate to copyrights and what are the implications for open source software

PyQt6 Book now available in Korean: 파이썬과 Qt6로 GUI 애플리케이션 만들기

The hands-on guide to creating GUI applications with Python gets a new translation

PyQt vs. Tkinter — Which Should You Choose for Your Next GUI Project?

What Are the Major Differences Between these Popular Python GUI Libraries

Q&A: How Do I Display Images in PySide6?

Using QLabel to easily add images to your applications

Q&A: How Do I Display Images in PyQt6? updated

Using QLabel to easily add images to your applications

Can You Charge for Open-Source Software?

Making Money from Open-Source Projects

QCheckBox

Toggleable checkable widget

QPushButton

Add clickable buttons to your Python UI

Plotting With PyQtGraph updated

Create Custom Plots in PyQt6 With PyQtGraph

Which Python GUI library should you use? updated

Comparing the Python GUI libraries available in 2024

Understanding the GPL and "Copyleft"

When Are Two Open Source Software Licenses Incompatible?

The Basics of Software Copyrights

Why Do You Need to Bother With Licensing at All?

PyQt6, PySide6, PyQt5 and PySide2 Books -- updated for 2022!

New editions extended and updated, now 780+ pages

PyQt5 vs PyQt6

What are the differences, and is it time to upgrade?

Drag & Drop Widgets with PyQt5

Sort widgets visually with drag and drop in a container

Packaging PyQt6 applications for Windows with PyInstaller & InstallForge updated

Turn your PyQt6 application into a distributable installer for Windows

Animating custom widgets with QPropertyAnimation

Add dynamic visual effects to your custom widgets

Using QProcess to run external programs

Run background programs without impacting your UI

Add scrollable regions with QScrollArea

Run out of space in your GUI? Add a scrollable region to your application

Simple threading in PyQt/PySide apps with .start() of QThreadPool

How to move Python functions/methods & PyQt/PySide slots onto separate threads

Using QProcess to run external programs

Run background programs without impacting your UI
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