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Installation
You have two options for getting PyQt5 installed on your system.
- Install from PyPI
- Clone from GitHub
To install via PyPI, simply run pip
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$ pip install python-qt5
Alternatively, you may choose to clone from GitHub.
$ cd c:\github
$ git clone https://github.com/pyqt/python-qt5.git
Initializing Python
Pip automatically creates a qt.conf
file in your Python directory, Qt needs this in order to run successfully. We'll need to create it by hand.
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In your Python directory - e.g.
c:\Python27
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Create a
qt.conf
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With this.
[Paths]
Prefix = c:/github/python-qt5/PyQt5
Binaries = c:/github/python-qt5/PyQt5
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Make sure to only use forward slashes (/) and no back slashes (\).
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Where each path must point to the
PyQt5
subdirectory of where you cloned. -
Now you can append the repository to your
PYTHONPATH
$ set PYTHONPATH=c:\github\python-qt5
$ python
>>> import sys
>>> from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
>>> app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
>>> button = QtWidgets.QPushButton("Hello")
>>> button.setFixedSize(400, 400)
>>> button.show()
Python Qt5 is fully encapsulated and requires no further tweaking. If this isn't true for you, that is a bug and you may submit an issue or pull-request with a fix.
Welcome to the wiki for PyQt5 using Python 2.7. For Python 3.4, head here
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