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

PySide is the official binding for Qt on Python and is now developed by The Qt Company itself.

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

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QtChart vs Pyqtgraph

Published 04.06.2020

Checkboxes in Table Views with custom model

Show check boxes for boolean values

PySide2 Toolbars & Menus — QAction

Defining toolbars, menus and keyboard shortcuts with QAction

PySide2 Layouts

Use layouts to effortlessly position widgets within the window

PySide2 Dialogs and Alerts

Notify your users and ask for their input

PySide2 Signals, Slots & Events

Triggering actions in response to user behaviors and GUI events

PySide2 Widgets

Using QPushButton, QCheckBox, QComboBox, QLabel and QSlider widgets

Q&A: Are there any built-in QIcons?

Using built-in icons for your apps.

What does @Slot() do?

Published 10.05.2020

Q&A: How to check if a QLineEdit is empty?

Empty strings are falsey in Python

Writing for PyQt5 & PySide2

Published 07.05.2020

PasswordEdit

Password editing field, with Show/Hide toggle

First steps with Qt Designer

Use Qt Designer's drag and drop interface to design your GUI

Implementing QPainter flood fill in PyQt5/PySide

Filling irregular regions in a QPainter canvas

The ModelView Architecture

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

Embedding custom widgets from Qt Designer

Learn how to use custom widgets in your PySide applications when designing with Qt Designer

Multithreading PySide2 applications with QThreadPool

Run background tasks concurrently without impacting your UI
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