PyOtherSide: Python 3 QML Plugin for Qt 5 and Qt 6

A Qt plugin providing access to a Python 3 interpreter from QML for creating asynchronous mobile and Desktop UIs with Python.

Requirements

• Qt 5.1.0 or newer (Qt 6.x also supported)
• Python 3.8.0 or newer

Building

To build and install the QML plugin:

qmake   # use "qmake6" for Qt 6
make
make install

To build against a specific Python version, use:

qmake PYTHON_CONFIG=python3.8-config   # use "qmake6" for Qt 6
make
make install

To manually update the qmltypes file on x64 Linux (TODO: make this automated):

qmake   # use "qmake6" for Qt 6
make
make INSTALL_ROOT=$(pwd)/tmp/
QML2_IMPORT_PATH=$(pwd)/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/qml \
    make -C src qmltypes

Unit Testing

To run the included unit tests after building, use:

./tests/tests

Static Linking

If you want to link PyOtherSide statically against Python 3, you can include the Python Standard Library in PyOtherSide as Qt Resource and have it extracted automatically on load, for this, zip up the Standard Library and place the .zip file as "pythonlib.zip" into src/ before running qmake.

More information

• Project page: https://thp.io/2011/pyotherside/
• Git repo: http://github.com/thp/pyotherside/
• Bug tracker: https://github.com/thp/pyotherside/issues
• Documentation: http://pyotherside.readthedocs.org/