Volodymyr Kirichinets - Hands-On Qt for Python Developers

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Volodymyr Kirichinets is a Python-based software developer with seven years' experience of the programming language in various fields of development, including finance, statistics, physics, and five years' experience with the PyQt framework. His quantitative background inspired him to become adept at Python.

Hugo Solis is an assistant professor in the physics department at the University of Costa Rica. His current research interests are computational cosmology, complexity, cryptography, and the influence of hydrogen on material properties. Hes experienced with using programming languages for scientific programming, including C/C++ and Python. Hes a Free Software Foundation member and has contributed code to some free software projects. He has also been a technical reviewer for Mastering Object-Oriented Python and Learning Object-Oriented Programming, and is the author of the Kivy Cookbook, all from Packt. Currently, hes in charge of the IFT, a Costa Rican scientific non-profit organization for the multidisciplinary practice of physics.

Chankey Pathak is a data scientist from India. He has developed a Python API for high-frequency trading for Morgan Stanley. He has worked with Citadel, Sophos, and Proofpoint in the past. He's also well known in the Perl community for his contributions. He is an open source contributor and loves Linux.

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Qt is one of the most widely used and flexible frameworks for GUI application development. This book will introduce you to the development of Python-based Qt GUI applications with Python bindings such as PyQt and PySide. We will start by describing PyQt and PySide GUI elements, and this will be used as a reference for the rest of the book. On completion of the book, you will be able to create beautiful Python GUI applications from scratch.

This book is for Python developers who want to develop GUIs and cross-platform applications that are modern, responsive, and attractive. No prior knowledge of Qt or QML is required.

, Introduction to Python and Qt , describes the basics of Qt and compares it with Python. It also discusses the fields of implementing various GUIs with Python.