Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friendly Pythonic Interfaces

Re:Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friend... by arpafaucon on Monday September 20, 2021 @11:48PM (#28601901)

Kudos to the writer! I used this framework for an small robotics project and, as others pointed out, I was up and running in less than an hour. However, as the project grew more complex, I reached a point where I felt the framework was in the way: I wanted complex things, and lacked the means to configure the framework that precisely. I would recommend others to keep the framework for what it does so incredibly well : small / prototypes projects ; but do not hesitate to switch to a more powerful backend once you feel your needs are complexifying.

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Re:Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friend... by KeplerBoy on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @01:58AM (#28602382)

What solution did you end up switching to?

I have a feeling that most python GUIs are lacking in some area and for full creative freedom someone would have to go for flask or fastapi, build the UI with modern js-frontend frameworks and connect that frontend with the actual application using websockets or regular HTTP-Requests.

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Re:Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friend... by simonh on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @03:05AM (#28602685)

I’ve had great success using PyQt for quite sophisticated GUIs. Any of the native bindings should give good results too. I doubt JS would give you more flexibility and performance than these.

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Re:Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friend... by barnabee on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:11AM (#28603840)

I have found DearPyGui [1] to be a really efficient way to knock up a quick GUI for a Python script/app. There's almost no boilerplate and I've found it scales reasonably well as things get more complex as it's easy to split views/"components" into modules and classes.

[1] https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui

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Re:Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friend... by scarygliders on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @04:45AM (#28603142)

I've been very happy with using Qt and PySide and now PySide2.

Without it I couldn't have produced Captain's Log, for example : https://captainslog.scarygliders.net/captains-log-2/

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Re:Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friend... by BrandoElFollito on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @03:27PM (#28608841)

This is exactly what happened with my home dashboard.

The initial version, 5 or so years ago (maybe a bit more, I do not remember) was based on a python library (sorry, I forgot the name but it was the major one at the time). It worked fine for a bit but moving to a kiosk browser and vue.js completely changed the game.

The backend was Python, then got replaced by a bus (mqtt) updated via golang microservices (they were in python initially, but then I wanted to learn go)

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Re:Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friend... by arpafaucon on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @08:04AM (#28604172)

For most applications in my company, we prefer fastapi + Jinja to generate HTML pages, and rely on the browser to display that for us. For the few programs that need to be run locally & without browser, we use PySide2 (Qt bindings): the framework is bulkier, but somehow feels more reliable.

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