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Hi,

I want to use the qt library for developing a GUI in python. I know some of the differences between these two bindings. Pyside is newer and I believe came to be for political and possibly also technical reasons.

Which of the two is the best choice and why?

Also, I am not aware of KDE4 python bindings that are based on pyside the way pykde4 is. Is that going to happen?

All else being equal, PySide has the nicer API.

PyQt has two versions of its API. Version 2 of its API is nicer and more Pythonic. However, for historical reasons and backward compatibility, version 1 is the default. Therefore, you end up starting all your PyQt modules with:

Code:

from sip import setapi

setapi("QDate", 2)

setapi("QDateTime", 2)

setapi("QTextStream", 2)

setapi("QTime", 2)

setapi("QVariant", 2)

setapi("QString", 2)

setapi("QUrl", 2)

PySide, on the other hand, offers only version 2 of the API.