PyQt5 is a Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt. Applications built with PyQt5 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 & PyQt5, see the PyQt5 tutorial and PyQt5 book Create Simple GUI Applications with Python & Qt.

Explore PyQt5

Install Qt Designer Standalone

Qt Designer Download for Windows, Mac and Linux

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

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

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

Introduction to the QGraphics framework

Creating vector interfaces using the QGraphics View framework

Editing QTableView cells

Allowing users to update the data in a model view

Pandas with numpy array

Published 14.04.2021
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