PySide and Qt-designer

08 Dec 2012 Matteo Mattei python pyside

The tool to transform myapplication.ui generated with qt-designer in myapplication_ui.py, is called pyside-uic (if you use PySide, or pyuic if you use PyQt). Its usage is straightforward:

Linux:

pyside-uic myapplication.ui > myapplication_ui.py

Windows:

C:\python27\scripts\pyside-uic.exe myapplication.ui > myapplication_ui.py

But can happen the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\Scripts\pyside-uic-script.py", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources

To fix the problem you need to intall setuptools from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools Now to use the generated file you need to add the following code to your application: