Python


  • Python is one of the most popular and fastest growing programming languages. It is the recommended language on the Raspberry Pi platform (where Pi is a reference to Python Interpreter) and is increasingly used on desktop applications. The Qt Framework, for example, has an officially…

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  • In this blog post we'll look at how to control Raspberry Pi GPIO pins from the Python programming language using two different modules: Rpi.GPIO and Gpiozero. A Bit About Python Python [1] is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language that has been around since 1991. It is…

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  • Earlier this year, The Qt Company announced that Python would be officially supported in Qt via the Qt For Python (formerly PySide2) Python bindings and tooling. In June 2018, the first technical preview was offered, built against the Qt 5.11 release. I have some experience with Python, including…

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  • Qt has always been renowned for its excellent developer documentation that includes API reference information as well as tutorials and examples. But some people prefer documentation in book format, whether it be an e-book or a traditional printed paper volume. Books offer a different style of…

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  • In an earlier blog post (1) I described how to create a widget with a Qt Designer plugin interface so it can be viewed within Qt Designer. With the increased interest in using Qt from the Python programming language, I asked one of our developers to reproduce the same example, …

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  • In this, the final installment of the blog series on Python, we'll look at modules and how object-oriented programming is supported. We'll take a brief look at two of the popular bindings for Qt from Python: PyQt and PySide. I'll wrap things up with some tips for effective programming and…

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  • Continuing our three-part series on the Python programming language, in this post we'll look at more of the core language features. File I/O Python provides a number of functions for file input and output, similar to what is provided in standard libraries for languages like C and C++. Shown below…

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  • Qt programmers traditionally program in the C++ language. It offers a number of benefits, including performance, the ability to do systems programming and to scale from small to very large systems. But the language is quite complex. My copy of the book The C++ Programming Language, 4th edition…

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