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Qt and PyQt
An advanced GUI library for Python
Boudewijn Rempt (boud@valdyas.org), Developer, Tryllian
Boudewijn Rempt has written a book on PyQt, published by Opendocs, GUI Programming with Python: QT Edition. The availability of this title puts PyQt on a par with Tkinter in printed documentation. You can contact Boudewijn at boud@valdyas.org.
David Mertz (mertz@gnosis.cx), Facilitator, Gnosis Software, Inc.
David Mertz wishes to let a thousand flowers bloom. David may be reached at mertz@gnosis.cx; his life pored over at http://gnosis.cx/dW/. Suggestions and recommendations on this, past, or future columns are welcome. Visit the Web page for his forthcoming book, Text Processing in Python.
Summary: The Qt toolkit is a widely-used cross-platform GUI toolkit, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, and handheld platforms. QT has a well-structured, but flexible, object-oriented organization, clear documentation, and an intuitive API. In this article, David Mertz and Boudewijn Rempt look at the Qt library, with a focus on the PyQt bindings that let Python programmers access Qt functionality.
Date: 11 Feb 2003
Level: Intermediate
Also available in: Japanese

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