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I currently develop many applications in a Qt heavy C++/Python environment on Linux, porting to PC/Mac as needed. I use Python embedded in C++ as well as in a stand alone GUI. Qt is used fro xml parsing/event handling/GUI/threading and much more. Right now all my Python work is in PyQt and I wanted to see how everyone views PySide. I'm interested because it is in house and as such should support more components with hopefully better integration. What are your experiences?
I know this has been asked before, but I want to revive the conversation.
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PySide is LGPL while PyQt is GPL. This could make a difference if you don't wish to make your project opensource. Although PyQt always has the propriety version available for a fairly reasonable price. I tend to find the PySide documentation more intuitive.
Advantages of PySide PySide represents the official set of Python bindings backed up by the Qt Company. PySide comes with a license under the LGPL, meaning it is simpler to incorporate into commercial projects when compared with PyQt. It allows the programmer to use QtQuick or QML to establish the user interface.
Can I use PySide for commercial applications? Yes, and you don't need to release your source code to customers. The LGPL only requires you to release any changes you make to PySide itself.
PyQt is free software developed by the British firm Riverbank Computing. It is available under similar terms to Qt versions older than 4.5; this means a variety of licenses including GNU General Public License (GPL) and commercial license, but not the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
We were recently thinking about using PySide, but we haven't found any information about whether it is supported by py2exe. That's why we kept to PyQt. If you need to develop for Windows, it's safer to use good ol' PyQt :-)
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