[PyQt] Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt

[Mark Summerfield]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:06:12 +0200 (CEST)
<projetmbc at club-internet.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
> I would ike to have infos about the future new version for Python 3
> of this great book. Is there a publication date ?

Hi "C",

I would very much like to do a new edition of the PyQt book, but it will
probably not be for another year or two due to other commitments.

I want the next edition to be based on Python 3.1 (or later). Also, I am
hoping that by the time I'm ready to start on it PySide will support
Python 3 and will be sufficiently compatible with PyQt that I can cover
both in the same book without confusing readers.

For those who can't wait I have converted all the book's examples to
Python 3.0 (using PyQt API 1) and to Python 3.1 (using PyQt API 2).

I had expected the conversion to Python 3.1 and API 2 to be rather
difficult, but in the end it was pretty straightforward, so the
differences between what's shown in the book and the Python 3.1 versions
of the examples are either non-existent or easy to see and understand.

I've put a few notes on the most problematic classes at the bottom of
the book's web page:
http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html
(This is also where the links to the Python 3 examples are located.)

On a personal note, last week I finished converting all my own Python
programs to Python 3.1 using the 2to3 tool and then manually converting
str % usage to str.format(). This includes some PyQt GUI programs that I
use every day:-)

-- 
Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd, www.qtrac.eu
    C++, Python, Qt, PyQt - training and consultancy
        "Programming in Python 3" - ISBN 0321680561
            http://www.qtrac.eu/py3book.html