PyQt5: is the wrapper incomplete?
Mark Summerfield
list at qtrac.plus.com
Thu Jun 16 03:25:04 EDT 2016
On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 8:22:33 AM UTC+1, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 3:54:53 AM UTC+1, jlad... at itu.edu wrote:
> > I am developing a data acquisition system for a custom device that communicates over USB. On the host computer side, I am using PyQt5.4. My Linux box has both Qt4 and Qt5 installed on it. I assume that PyQt5.4 compiled on top of Qt5 automatically. I'm not sure how to check that.
>
> In IDLE or at some other Python prompt or in a tiny test.py file:
>
> from PyQt5 import QtCore
> print(QtCore.qVersion())
>
> > In any case, I used PySerial to handle the USB communication. I just noticed that Qt also has serial features. I need to give the completed program to other users, on Windows no less. If I can forego PySerial and use Qt's serial interface instead, it would simplify the installation.
> >
> > Now, the PyQt5 documentation implies that a module called QtSerial exists. But while I can write...
> >
> > from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (...), or
> > from PyQt5.QtGui import (...), or
> > from PyQt5.QtCore import (...),
> >
> > ...attempting to import from PyQt5.QtSerial raises an ImportError.
> >
> > I've tried many variations on the spelling, and I've tried various import statements to inspect the (very large and complex) PyQt5 namespace. I haven't found the QtSerial classes. Are they even there? Maybe the wrapping of the library is incomplete?
>
> In Ubuntu 14.04 there is no QtSerial or QtSerialPort.
Sorry, my mistake, you have to install it as a separate package as Vincent explained.
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