PySide

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Compatibility
• Installation
  • Installing prerequisites
  • Installing PySide on a Windows System
  • Installing PySide on a Mac OS X System
  • Installing PySide on a Linux System
• Building PySide
• Feedback and getting involved

Introduction

PySide is the Python Qt bindings project, providing access the complete Qt 4.8 framework as well as to generator tools for rapidly generating bindings for any C++ libraries.

The PySide project is developed in the open, with all facilities you'd expect from any modern OSS project such as all code in a git repository, an open Bugzilla for reporting bugs, and an open design process. We welcome any contribution without requiring a transfer of copyright.

The PySide documentation is hosted at http://pyside.github.io/docs/pyside/.

Compatibility

PySide requires Python 2.6 or later and Qt 4.6 or better.

Note

Qt 5.x is currently not supported.

Installation

Installing prerequisites

Install latest pip distribution: download get-pip.py and run it using the python interpreter.

Installing PySide on a Windows System

To install PySide on Windows you can choose from the following options:

1. Use pip to install the wheel binary packages:

   pip install -U PySide
   

2. Use setuptools to install the egg binary packages (deprecated):

   easy_install -U PySide
   

Note

Provided binaries are without any other external dependencies. All required Qt libraries, development tools and examples are included.

Installing PySide on a Mac OS X System

You need to install or build Qt 4.8 first, see the Qt Project Documentation.

Alternatively you can use Homebrew and install Qt with

$ brew install qt

To install PySide on Mac OS X you can choose from the following options:

1. Use pip to install the wheel binary packages:

   $ pip install -U PySide
   

Installing PySide on a Linux System

We do not provide binaries for Linux. Please read the build instructions in section Building PySide on a Linux System.

Building PySide

• Building PySide on a Windows System.
• Building PySide on a Mac OS X System.
• Building PySide on a Linux System.

Feedback and getting involved

• Mailing list: http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside
• Issue tracker: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/PYSIDE
• Code Repository: https://github.com/PySide