PySide has been released

This is the first public release of PySide, a project providing an LGPL’d set of Python bindings for the Qt framework. The code and resources released so far comprise several man-years worth of effort and we’re extremely proud to be able to share this effort with the Python and Qt communities. We hope that the release will foster general Qt software development using Python and we invite you to join the effort to further enhance the software.

PySide already provides a full set of Qt bindings as well as automated binding generation tools. Since we have made the whole toolset available, we expect PySide to be valuable not only to Qt software developers, but to people willing to generate other Qt and C++ based bindings as well. Although we chose a different technical approach to generate the bindings, PySide will be initially fully API-compatible with existing Python bindings for Qt.

PySide is still a work in progress, and we expect to put in a lot of effort to enhance it. This being said, we believe it is already in a usable state, especially if you can tolerate an occasional rough edge and unpainted surface. Due to practical reasons, our development efforts have been focused on Linux, but we expect people to join in porting the code to other platforms. The tools we use are cross-platform, so mostly porting should be just a matter of a recompile.

Browse this site to find the source code, documentation, developer resources, mailing lists, and general information on the project. Welcome!