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Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt5 (PyQt5 Edition): The hands-on guide to making apps with Python
Building desktop applications doesn't have to be difficult. Using Python & Qt5 you can create fully functional desktop apps in minutes. Starting from the very basics, this modern PyQt5 book takes you on a tour of the key features of PyQt5 you can use to build real-life applications.
This is the 5th Edition of Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt , updated for 2022 & PyQt5.
Learn the fundamental building blocks of PyQt applications — Widgets, Layouts & Signals and learn how PyQt5 uses the event loop to handle and respond to user input. Design beautiful UIs with Qt Designer and customize the look and feel of your applications with Qt Style Sheets and custom widgets.Use Qt's MVC-like ModelViews framework to connect data sources to your widgets, including SQL databases, numpy and pandas data tables, to build-data driven application. Visualize data using matplotlib & PyQtGraph and connect with external data sources to build live dashboards. Learn how to use threads and processes to manage long-running tasks and communicate with external services. Parse data and visualize the output in logs and progress bars.The book includes usability and architectural tips to help you build maintainable and usable PyQt5 applications from the start. Finally, once your application is ready to be released, discover how to package it up into professional-quality installers, ready to ship.
Contents Martin Fitzpatrick has been teaching and using PyQt for 8 years, helping thousands of developers bring their applications to life.
This is the 5th Edition of Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt , updated for 2022 & PyQt5.
Learn the fundamental building blocks of PyQt applications — Widgets, Layouts & Signals and learn how PyQt5 uses the event loop to handle and respond to user input. Design beautiful UIs with Qt Designer and customize the look and feel of your applications with Qt Style Sheets and custom widgets.Use Qt's MVC-like ModelViews framework to connect data sources to your widgets, including SQL databases, numpy and pandas data tables, to build-data driven application. Visualize data using matplotlib & PyQtGraph and connect with external data sources to build live dashboards. Learn how to use threads and processes to manage long-running tasks and communicate with external services. Parse data and visualize the output in logs and progress bars.The book includes usability and architectural tips to help you build maintainable and usable PyQt5 applications from the start. Finally, once your application is ready to be released, discover how to package it up into professional-quality installers, ready to ship.
Contents Martin Fitzpatrick has been teaching and using PyQt for 8 years, helping thousands of developers bring their applications to life.
689 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 24, 2020
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February 3, 2022
I bought the PyQt 6 version of the book.
This book is intended for someone new to PyQt. I believe it does a good job of introducing a lot of features of PyQt. However, the book really needs a good editor. There are mistakes in both the text and in the example code in the book. The example code often omits imported classes and uses methods that are not valid in PyQt6. I’m not sure if some of these are just typos or carryovers from v5. In the text there are references to v5. Installing Qt Designer is not well explained. Someone with decent experience in Python should be able to correct the mistakes, but it is a bit frustrating. I expect this would be a stumbling block for beginners. Overall the book feels a bit rushed. A lot of “you can do this and that…” I’d love to see better examples of application building that build on features / difficulty through the text.
I’m still reading—on page 175. I will finish it and update this review as appropriate. I think this book has a lot of potential but I’m a bit disappointed to have bought something after its first edition to have such problems.
This book is intended for someone new to PyQt. I believe it does a good job of introducing a lot of features of PyQt. However, the book really needs a good editor. There are mistakes in both the text and in the example code in the book. The example code often omits imported classes and uses methods that are not valid in PyQt6. I’m not sure if some of these are just typos or carryovers from v5. In the text there are references to v5. Installing Qt Designer is not well explained. Someone with decent experience in Python should be able to correct the mistakes, but it is a bit frustrating. I expect this would be a stumbling block for beginners. Overall the book feels a bit rushed. A lot of “you can do this and that…” I’d love to see better examples of application building that build on features / difficulty through the text.
I’m still reading—on page 175. I will finish it and update this review as appropriate. I think this book has a lot of potential but I’m a bit disappointed to have bought something after its first edition to have such problems.
November 18, 2020
Spoko. Jak zaczynałem, myślałem, że będzie nieco inna, ale generalnie jest ok. Najbardziej miałem nadzieję na poćwiczenie QT Designera, ale to chyba nie z tą książką. Trochę błędów edycyjnych, ale dostałem jakiś przedwydawczy draft, więc ujdzie. Fajne przykłady.
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