QtPy 2.4.1

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QtPy 2.4.1

QtPy: Abstraction layer for PyQt5/PySide2/PyQt6/PySide6









Copyright © 2009– The Spyder Development Team
Description
QtPy is a small abstraction layer that lets you
write applications using a single API call to either PyQt or PySide.
It provides support for PyQt5, PySide2, PyQt6 and PySide6 using the Qt5 layout
(where the QtGui module has been split into QtGui and QtWidgets).
Basically, you can write your code as if you were using PyQt or PySide directly,
but import Qt modules from qtpy instead of PyQt5, PySide2, PyQt6 or PySide6.
Accordingly, when porting code between different Qt bindings (PyQt vs PySide) or Qt versions (Qt5 vs Qt6), QtPy makes this much more painless, and allows you to easily and incrementally transition between them. QtPy handles incompatibilities and differences between bindings or Qt versions for you while keeping your project running, so you can focus more on your own code and less on keeping track of supporting every Qt version and binding. Furthermore, when you do want to upgrade or support new bindings, it allows you to update your project module by module rather than all at once. You can check out examples of this approach in projects using QtPy, like git-cola.
Attribution and acknowledgments
This project is based on the pyqode.qt
project and the spyderlib.qt
module from the Spyder project, and
also includes contributions adapted from
qt-helpers, developed as part of the
glue project.
Unlike pyqode.qt this is not a namespace package, so it is not tied
to a particular project or namespace.
License
This project is released under the MIT license.
Requirements
You need PyQt5, PySide2, PyQt6 or PySide6 installed in your system to make use
of QtPy. If several of these packages are found, PyQt5 is used by
default unless you set the QT_API environment variable.
QT_API can take the following values:

pyqt5 (to use PyQt5).
pyside2 (to use PySide2).
pyqt6 (to use PyQt6).
pyside6 (to use PySide6).

Module aliases and constants


QtCore.pyqtSignal, QtCore.pyqtSlot and QtCore.pyqtProperty (available on PyQt5/6) are instead exposed as QtCore.Signal, QtCore.Slot and QtCore.Property, respectively, following the Qt5 module layout.


The Qt version being used can be checked with QtCore.__version__ (instead of QtCore.QT_VERSION_STR) as well as from qtpy.QT_VERSION.


For PyQt6 enums, unscoped enum access was added by promoting the enums of the QtCore, QtGui, QtTest and QtWidgets modules.


Compatibility is added between the QtGui and QtOpenGL modules for the QOpenGL* classes.


To check the current binding version, you can use qtpy.PYSIDE_VERSION for PySide2/6 and qtpy.PYQT_VERSION for PyQt5/6. If the respective binding is not being used, the value of its attribute will be None.


To check the current selected binding, you can use qtpy.API_NAME


There are boolean values to check if Qt5/6, PyQt5/6 or PySide2/6 are being used: qtpy.QT5, qtpy.QT6, qtpy.PYQT5, qtpy.PYQT6, qtpy.PYSIDE2 and qtpy.PYSIDE6. True if currently being used, False otherwise.


Compat module
In the qtpy.compat module, you can find wrappers for QFileDialog static methods and SIP/Shiboken functions, such as:


QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory wrapped with qtpy.compat.getexistingdirectory


QFileDialog.getOpenFileName wrapped with qtpy.compat.getopenfilename


QFileDialog.getOpenFileNames wrapped with qtpy.compat.getopenfilenames


QFileDialog.getSaveFileName wrapped with qtpy.compat.getsavefilename


sip.isdeleted and shiboken.isValid wrapped with qtpy.compat.isalive


Installation
pip install qtpy

or
conda install qtpy

Type checker integration
Type checkers have no knowledge of installed packages, so these tools require
additional configuration.
A Command Line Interface (CLI) is offered to help with usage of QtPy (to get MyPy
and Pyright/Pylance args/configurations).
Mypy
The mypy-args command helps you to generate command line arguments for Mypy
that will enable it to process the QtPy source files with the same API
as QtPy itself would have selected.
If you run
qtpy mypy-args

QtPy will output a string of Mypy CLI args that will reflect the currently
selected Qt API.
For example, in an environment where PyQt5 is installed and selected
(or the default fallback, if no binding can be found in the environment),
this would output the following:
--always-true=PYQT5 --always-false=PYSIDE2 --always-false=PYQT6 --always-false=PYSIDE6

Using Bash or a similar shell, this can be injected into
the Mypy command line invocation as follows:
mypy --package mypackage $(qtpy mypy-args)

Pyright/Pylance
In the case of Pyright, instead of runtime arguments, it is required to create a
config file for the project, called pyrightconfig.json or a pyright section
in pyproject.toml. See here
for reference. In order to set this configuration, QtPy offers the pyright-config
command for guidance.
If you run
qtpy pyright-config

you will get the necessary configs to be included in your project files. If you don't
have them, it is recommended to create the latter. For example, in an environment where PyQt5
is installed and selected (or the default fallback, if no binding can be found in the
environment), this would output the following:
pyrightconfig.json:
{"defineConstant": {"PYQT5": true, "PYSIDE2": false, "PYQT6": false, "PYSIDE6": false}}

pyproject.toml:
[tool.pyright.defineConstant]
PYQT5 = true
PYSIDE2 = false
PYQT6 = false
PYSIDE6 = false

Note: These configurations are necessary for the correct usage of the default VSCode's type
checking feature while using QtPy in your source code.
Testing matrix
Currently, QtPy runs tests for different bindings on Linux, Windows and macOS, using
Python 3.7 and 3.11, and installing those bindings with conda and pip. For the
PyQt bindings, we also check the installation of extra packages via pip.
Following this, the current test matrix looks something like this:




Python
3.7

3.11





OS
Binding / manager
conda
pip
conda
pip


Linux
PyQt5
5.12
5.15
5.15
5.15 (with extras)



PyQt6
skip (unavailable)
6.3
skip (unavailable)
6.5 (with extras)



PySide2
5.13
5.12
5.15
skip (no wheels available)



PySide6
6.4
6.3
6.5
6.5


Windows
PyQt5
5.9
5.15
5.15
5.15 (with extras)



PyQt6
skip (unavailable)
6.2
skip (unavailable)
6.5 (with extras)



PySide2
5.13
5.12
5.15
skip (no wheels available)



PySide6
skip (test hang with 6.4. 6.5 unavailable)
6.2
6.5
6.5


MacOS
PyQt5
5.12
5.15
5.15
5.15 (with extras)



PyQt6
skip (unavailable)
6.3
skip (unavailable)
6.5 (with extras)



PySide2
5.13
5.12
5.15
skip (no wheels available)



PySide6
6.4
6.3
6.5
6.5



Note: The mentioned extra packages for the PyQt bindings are the following:

PyQt3D and PyQt6-3D
PyQtChart and PyQt6-Charts
PyQtDataVisualization and PyQt6-DataVisualization
PyQtNetworkAuth and PyQt6-NetworkAuth
PyQtPurchasing
PyQtWebEngine and PyQt6-WebEngine
QScintilla and PyQt6-QScintilla

Contributing
Everyone is welcome to contribute! See our Contributing guide for more details.
Sponsors
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and the donations we have received from our users around the world through Open Collective: