Comments on: An Introduction to PyQt: creating GUIs with Python’s QT bindings

By: george

george — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:54:06 +0000

hi, many thanks for this tutorial. I want to have a few simple dialogs and then continue with processing in my script. Is it possible to exit the main loop and return the values i got from the gui?

By: Helen Neely

Helen Neely — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:29:35 +0000

Hi, I just checked as well, looks like the link is dead on the PyQT4 site. Could check that you’re pointing to the right documentation?

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Tue, 24 May 2011 08:46:19 +0000

Hi Mark,
The links to the documentation for PyQt4 aren’t working. They’re still there, only the URL has changed (you have to add a /static somewhere in the URL).

Also, it’s a really good tutorial! Thanks a lot for taking the time to make this simple introduction to PyQt4!

By: dave cortesi

dave cortesi — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:40:14 +0000

I’ll ask this here — I’m part of the new wave of readers since the Query7 post was noted in reddit/r/python, and hopefully comments here are still being monitored.

Regarding listing 2, it is not clear to me why you take pains to make the widgets label, hello_edit and hello_button, properties of the Hello_window (“self.label =…” etc) while just a few lines later, you do not make hbox and central_widget so. If I understand the scope rules (doubtful), they are effectively locals of define_widgets()? Presumably they continue to exist after define_widgets() exits, because there is a reference to hbox in central_widget and a reference to central_widget in self. But they can’t be named in later code.

Is that why you make self.label etc properties, because there might be need to name it in some other code?

By: Learning Python Qt Programming with PyQt & PySide | Query7

Learning Python Qt Programming with PyQt & PySide | Query7 — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:00:42 +0000

[...] An Introduction to PyQt by Mark Mruss of LearningPython is an excellent beginners introduction to PyQt. It assumes no prior knowledge of PyQt or GUI programming and walks you through creating a basic hello world window. [...]

By: shadyabhi

shadyabhi — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:58:05 +0000

@frispete
So, whats basically the differnece between what you said and what he did?

By: frispete

frispete — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:02:28 +0000

The connect line shoud read:

self.hello_button.clicked.connect(self.on_hello_clicked)

By: gavranha

gavranha — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:56:14 +0000

Thanks a lot for your time writing so useful tutorial. I’m just starting and the big trouble for a newbie is to be able to see the whole thing in the first steps. You do that. Thanks!

By: Shraddha

Shraddha — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:20:58 +0000

Thanks a ton for this post!
You saved so much of my time.

By: brian N.

brian N. — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:49:43 +0000

hey nice tutorial..Altough..where in the code does it say to put in: self.create_widgets()

in the :

def __init__(self,win_parent = None):
# Init the base claas
QtGui.QMainWindow.__init__(self,win_parent)
self.create_widgets()

i cant seem to find where its put in.

PS.im a newbie to python trying to learn,so maybe its just me…;)