PySide tutorial

last modified October 18, 2023

This is PySide tutorial. The tutorial is suited for beginners and intermediate programmers. After reading this tutorial, you will be able to program nontrivial PySide applications.

Table of contents

• Introduction

• First programs

• Menus and toolbars

• Layout management

• Events and signals

• Dialogs

• Widgets

• Widgets II

• Drag & drop

• Drawing

• Custom widgets

• The Tetris game

PySide

PySide is Python library to create cross-platform graphical user interfaces. It is a Python binding to the Qt framework. Qt library is one of the most powerful GUI libraries. It is developed by Digia and Qt Project.

Related tutorials

There is a full Python tutorial on ZetCode. Tutorials for other GUI Python bindings include PyQt6 tutorial, wxPython tutorial, Python GTK tutorial and Tkinter tutorial.

Author

My name is Jan Bodnar, and I am a passionate programmer with extensive programming experience. I have been writing programming articles since 2007. To date, I have authored over 1,400 articles and 8 e-books. I possess more than ten years of experience in teaching programming.