ANN: PyQt v4.8.1 Released

[Phil Thompson]

PyQt v4.8.1 has been released and is available from
http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/.

PyQt is a comprehensive set of bindings for the Qt application and UI
framework from Nokia.  It supports the same platforms as Qt (Windows,
Linux and MacOS/X).

PyQt supports Python v3 and Python v2.3 and later.

The highlight of this release is full support for Qt v4.7.0 including
the ability to integrate Python with QML, the new declarative markup
language for building highly dynamic user interfaces.

Windows installers are provided for the GPL version of PyQt which contains
everything needed for PyQt development (including Qt, Qt Designer,
QScintilla, and MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and ODBC drivers) except Python
itself.

PyQt v4 is implemented as a set of 19 extension modules containing over
400 classes and over 6,000 functions and methods.

    QtCore
    The non-GUI infrastructure including event loops, threads, i18n,
    Unicode, signals and slots, user and application settings, mapped
    files and shared memory.

    QtDeclarative
    A set of classes that implement a framework for building highly
    dynamic user interfaces using the QML declarative language that can be
    integrated with Python.

    QtDesigner
    A set of classes that allow the Qt Designer GUI design tool to be
    extended with PyQt.

    QtGui
    A rich collection of GUI widgets.

    QtHelp
    A set of classes for creating and viewing searchable documentation and
    being able to integrate online help with PyQt applications.  It
    includes the C++ port of the Lucene text search engine.

    QtNetwork
    A set of classes to support TCP and UDP socket programming and higher
    level protocols (eg. HTTP, SSL).

    QtOpenGL
    A set of classes that allows PyOpenGL to render onto Qt widgets.

    QtScript
    A set of classes that implements a JavaScript interpreter.  Python
    objects may be exposed in the interpreter as JavaScript objects.

    QtScriptTools
    A debugger for the JavaScript interpreter.

    QtSql
    A set of classes that implement SQL data models and interfaces to
    industry standard databases.  The Windows installers include support
    for SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL and ODBC.

    QtSvg
    A set of classes to render SVG files onto Qt widgets.

    QtTest
    A set of classes to automate unit testing of PyQt applications and
    GUIs.

    QtWebKit
    This implements a web browser engine based on the WebKit engine used
    by Apple's Safari browser.  It allows the methods and properties of
    Python objects to be published and appear as JavaScript objects to
    scripts embedded in HTML pages.

    QtXML
    A set of classes that implement DOM and SAX parsers.

    QtXMLPatterns
    A set of classes that implement XQuery and XPath support for XML and
    custom data models.

    QAxContainer
    A set of classes for Windows that allows the integration of ActiveX
    controls and COM objects.

    phonon
    A cross-platform multimedia framework that enables the use of audio
    and video content in PyQt applications.  DirectX is used as the
    Windows backend, QuickTime as the MacOS/X backend, and GStreamer as
    the Linux backend.

    QtMultimedia
    A set of classes that provide low-level multimedia functions.
    Application developers would normally use the phonon module.

    DBus
    PyQt includes dbus.mainloop.qt that allows the Qt event loop to be
    used with the standard DBus Python bindings.

PyQt includes the pyuic4 utility which generates Python code to implement
user interfaces created with Qt Designer in the same way that the uic
utility generates C++ code.  It is also able to load Designer XML files
dynamically.

PyQt is available under the GPL and a commercial license.  Unlike Qt, PyQt
is not available under the LGPL.  The commercial PyQt license allows GPL
applications to be relicensed at any time.