常见问题 ¶

When did The Qt Company adopt PySide2?

In April 2016 Qt 公司 decided to properly support the port. For more information, see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pyside-dev/pqwzngAGLWE .

Why use PySide2 and not PySide?

Since PySide was developed for Qt 4, we now use PySide2 to imply that it is for a newer version, after it was ported to support Qt 5.

Where I can find information about the old PySide project?

The project’s old wiki page is available on PySide, but the project is now deprecated and not supported.

There are three wheels (pyside2, shiboken2, and shiboken2_generator), what’s the difference?

Before the official release, everything was in one big wheel, so it made sense to split these into separate wheels, each for the major projects currently in development:

• pyside2 : contains all the PySide2 modules to use the Qt framework; also depends on the shiboken2 module.

• shiboken2 : contains the shiboken2 module with helper functions for PySide2.

• shiboken2_generator : contains the generator binary that can work with a C++ project and a typesystem to generate Python bindings. If you want to generate bindings for a Qt/C++ project, there won’t be any linking to the Qt shared libraries; you need to do this by hand. We recommend building PySide2 from scratch to have everything properly linked.

Why is the shiboken2_generator not installed automatically?

It’s not necessary to install the shiboken2_generator to use PySide2. The package is a result of the wheel splitting process. To use the generator, it’s recommended to build it from scratch to have the proper Qt linking.