QtCS2024 Qt for Python

Session Summary

• A new Python-only module in PySide: QtAsyncio (based on asyncio from Python)
• Startup time being enhanced by implementing a lazy loading based on PEP690.
• Flatpak suppor for KDE Application
• Working on reducing the size of the wheels pyside provide.
• Android support improved: support cross compilation from macOS, and updated NDKs.
• QtDS compatibility: new package with the quick components DS provide and exporting Python projects.

Session Owners

Friedemann Kleint

Discussion

• Evaluating having Python support for QtCreator plugins, it might be helped by the work on QtScrypt.
  • Lua was a simpler language to integrate, it's simple to embed.
  • Vladimir will ask how the Python-version included in Maya work, if they set per version or something similar.
  • Some ideas on how to reduce the interpreter, maybe using micropython...but it might be too limited.
• KDE bindings
  • A contributor is working on this for Google Summer of code.
  • Few frameworks were done in a few weeks.
  • CMake modules will be created to ease the process.
  • Shiboken is being used for this process.
  • There are some struggling with listing the classes explicitly on the typesystem
  • A script could be written to get the export classes.
  • Annotations problems: does a function accept nullptr? we cannot get this from the headers
  • There is interest in the KDE community for more Python code, because is simpler than C++