On: Hello Qt for Python

[simonh]

How well does that work on OSX? I’ve tried many times over many years, but never got a satisfactory working Python + Qt development environment working on the Mac.

[fernly → simonh]

With Python3 and PyQt5 it is literally as simple as "pip install pyqt5". I speak from having built and maintained multiple PyQt-based apps on MacOS.

Edit: I should say, there are MacOS-unique difficulties if you want to bundle your nice PyQt5 script into a standalone MacOS app bundle using PyInstaller. But that's a separate issue.

[RayDonnelly → simonh]

conda install pyqt

[RayDonnelly → RayDonnelly]

Why was this downvoted?

It will setup exactly what was asked for. Specifically qt 5.9.5 with PyQt.

[mkl → RayDonnelly]

>>> You can just do `pip install PyQt5` now.

>> How well does that work on OSX?

> conda install pyqt

Your comment, while presenting a potential solution to the original problem, did not make sense in context and went off in another direction entirely.

[RayDonnelly → mkl]

Did you miss that I was replying to simonh, and to be specific, to this part?

> I’ve tried many times over many years, but never got a satisfactory working Python + Qt development environment working on the Mac.