[FAQ] "Best" GUI toolkit for python

[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

Le jeudi 20 octobre 2016 09:35:29 UTC+2, Mark Summerfield a écrit :
> On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 7:18:28 PM UTC+1, Demosthenes Koptsis wrote:
> > I thought PyQt was supported by Qt company...
> > 
> > There is also an official book by Prentice Hall:
> > 
> > Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt (Prentice Hall Open Source 
> > Software Development)
> > 
> > https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Python-Prentice-Software-Development/dp/0132354187/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476901015&sr=8-1&keywords=rapid+qt+python
> > 
> > Inside the book the apps are been developed in PyQt
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Dim
> > 
> > On 10/19/2016 03:49 PM, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 9:09:46 PM UTC+1, Demosthenes Koptsis wrote:
> > >> My favorite GUIs are PyQt and wxPython.
> > >>
> > >> I prefer PyQt than PySide because PySide seem to me like an abandoned
> > >> project.
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > It does seem that PySide 1 isn't making any visible progress.
> > >
> > > However, PySide 2 for Qt 5 is indeed progressing, and is being funded by The Qt Company: https://wiki.qt.io/PySide2
> 
> I wrote that book and it was 'official' in the sense that PyQt's creator & maintainer Phil Thompson did technical review & helped. However, PyQt has never been an official Qt product (not Trolltech, nor Nokia, nor The Qt Company); in fact Trolltech never even approved of PyQt.
> 
> The only official Qt bindings for Python will be PySide2. PySide1 was funded by Nokia and so that was also official, but that funding stopped and so I guess PySide1 is in limbo. (However, it works well and I use it for both personal and commercial projects.)

[Off topic]
Qt5 as of 5.6 is simply unusable.
>From what I see in their dev list, it is probably
still the case.