pyqt-distutils 0.5.0

A set of distutils extension for building Qt ui files

A set of distutils extension to work with PyQt applications and UI files.

The goal of this tiny library is to help you write PyQt application in a pythonic way, using setup.py to build the Qt designer Ui files.

This works with PyQt4, PyQt5 and PySide.

Usage

Add the following lines to your setup.py:

# import build_ui
try:
    from pyqt_distutils.build_ui import build_ui
    cmdclass = {'build_ui': build_ui}
except ImportError:
    build_ui = None  # user won't have pyqt_distutils when deploying
    cmdclass = {}

...

setup(...,
      cmdclass=cmdclass)

To build the ui/qrc files, run:

python setup.py build_ui

To forcibly rebuilt every files, use the --force option:

python setup.py build_ui --force

UI Files

The compilation of ui files is driven by a pyuic.json file, which is a plain json file with the following format:

{
    "files": [
        [
            "forms/main_window.ui",
            "package/forms"
        ]
    ],
    "pyrcc": "pyrcc5",
    "pyrcc_options": "",
    "pyuic": "pyuic5",
    "pyuic_options": "--from-imports"
}

Here is a brief description of the fields:

• files: list of file pairs made up of the source ui file and the destination package

• pyrcc: the name of the pyrcc tool to use (e.g: ‘pyrcc4’ or ‘pyside-rcc’)

• pyrcc_options: pyrcc options (optional)

• pyuic: the name of the pyuic tool to use (e.g: ‘pyrcc4’ or ‘pyside-rcc’)

Starting from version 3.0, you can use a glob expression instead of a file path. E.g., to compile all ui files under the forms directory in package/forms, you could write the following pyuic.json:

{
    "files": [
        [
            "forms/*.ui",
            "package/forms"
        ]
    ],
    "pyrcc": "pyrcc5",
    "pyrcc_options": "",
    "pyuic": "pyuic5",
    "pyuic_options": "--from-imports"
}

Command line tool

Starting from version 0.2, you can use the pyuicfg command line tool to manage your pyuic.json file:

# generate pyuic.json in the current directory, for use with PyQt4
pyuicfg -g

# generate pyuic.json in the current directory, for use with PyQt5
pyuicfg -g --pyqt5

# generate pyuic.json in the current directory, for use with PySide
pyuicfg -g --pyside

# add files
pyuicfg -a forms/main_window.ui foo_package/forms
pyuicfg -a resources/foo.qrc foo_package/forms

# remove file
pyuicfg -r resources/foo.qrc

Requirements

The following packages are required:

• enum34 (python enums)

• docopt

Install

You can either install from pypi:

(sudo) pip install pyqt-distutils

Or from source:

pip install .

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

Changelog

0.5.0

• allow the use of .json extension instead of .cfg (both are supported, .json become the default extension)

0.4.2

• fix python 2 compatibility (#2)

0.4.1

• remove useless and confusing print statement

0.4.0

• add a --force flag

• always force compilation *.qrc files

0.3.0

• allow glob expression in files lists.

0.2.1

• fix missing install requirements (docopt and enum34).

0.2.0

• add pyuicfg command line tool to administrate your pyuic.cfg file.

0.1.2

• Improve readme

0.1.1

• Fix description and examples when pyqt-distutils has not been installed.

0.1.0

• Initial release