1PyQt5 - Comprehensive Python Bindings for Qt v5 2=============================================== 3 4Qt is set of cross-platform C++ libraries that implement high-level APIs for 5accessing many aspects of modern desktop and mobile systems. These include 6location and positioning services, multimedia, NFC and Bluetooth connectivity, 7a Chromium based web browser, as well as traditional UI development. 8 9PyQt5 is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for Qt v5. It is implemented 10as more than 35 extension modules and enables Python to be used as an 11alternative application development language to C++ on all supported platforms 12including iOS and Android. 13 14PyQt5 may also be embedded in C++ based applications to allow users of those 15applications to configure or enhance the functionality of those applications. 16 17 18Author 19------ 20 21PyQt5 is copyright (c) Riverbank Computing Limited. Its homepage is 22https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/. 23 24Support may be obtained from the PyQt mailing list at 25https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt/. 26 27 28License 29------- 30 31PyQt5 is released under the GPL v3 license and under a commercial license that 32allows for the development of proprietary applications. 33 34 35Documentation 36------------- 37 38The documentation for the latest release can be found 39`here <https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt5/>`__. 40 41 42Installation 43------------ 44 45The GPL version of PyQt5 can be installed from PyPI:: 46 47 pip install PyQt5 48 49The wheels include a copy of the required parts of the LGPL version of Qt. 50 51``pip`` will also build and install the bindings from the sdist package but 52Qt's ``qmake`` tool must be on ``PATH``. 53 54The ``sip-install`` tool will also install the bindings from the sdist package 55but will allow you to configure many aspects of the installation. 56