PySide2 on windows

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Does anyone know where I can find a pip-install for PySide2?

It's 2017 and I can't seem to find a pip install or site-package containing the binaries for PySide2. I prefer not to deal with downloading the source code and compiling it myself, as that usually ends up being a huge headache as it's never a smooth process. Also considering it's highly likely someone else has already done it. If I were to be honest here, if I attempted to compile it myself and errors popped up, I wouldn't really know where to begin solving them, nor do I want to spend time doing that.

I just find it hard to believe I can't find it anywhere online or even in PIP when a lot of applications in the VFX industry are switching to PySide2.

I hope someone can help me out. Thanks

same problem here, did you find a way? – Jiloc Jun 18 '17 at 15:18 — Jiloc, Jun 18 '17 at 15:18
nope! sadly still looking – JokerMartini Jun 19 '17 at 11:43 — JokerMartini, Jun 19 '17 at 11:43

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '17 at 10:01

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Same Problem...

So i tried to build it. But there are Problems building the WebKit.

Hence my windows binaries are actually without a webkit binding.

answered Jun 21 '17 at 10:01

Claudius Hansch

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Looking at your link.. Did you built pyside2 for qt 5.9 linking qt5.6? – Jiloc Jun 22 '17 at 06:25
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Oh. Yes the first link is Qt 5.9.0 not 5.6.2. (now the title is correct...) – Claudius Hansch Jul 03 '17 at 07:07
you would not have an x64 available by any chance...? – BaldDude Feb 08 '18 at 20:54
This is incredible! Thanks @ClaudiusHansch! Can you give a little more info on how you did this? Or was it basically just: https://wiki.qt.io/PySide2_Windows ? – ewerybody Feb 14 '18 at 15:26

RMPR · Answer 2 · 2020-03-31T09:16:43.210

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You can obtain it through PyPI:

pip install PySide2

or if it fails (most likely because your pip executable is bound to python 2) try:

pip3 install PySide2

or even better:

python -m pip install Pyside2

This assumes that python is bound to Python 3, that way you're really sure about the Python version used, see Why you should use python -m pip.

edited Mar 31 '20 at 09:16

answered Oct 05 '18 at 08:16

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Alas, normal windows 10 users get the error " Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement install (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for install" trying it via pip – 576i Dec 01 '18 at 14:06
do you use python 2 or python 3 ? – RMPR Dec 01 '18 at 16:04
Python3. I got it to work by downloading directly from qt. – 576i Dec 02 '18 at 17:27

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 27 '18 at 06:19

There are wheels available by Fredrik Averpil here built with Qt 5.6.
Claudius Hansch's answer provides a wheel using Qt 5.9.

In any case, don't forget to either

set the QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable as described here

or

create a qt.conf file in the folder of your python.exe with the content

[Paths]
Prefix = /dir_to_site-packages/PySide2
Binaries = /dir_to_site-packages/PySide2

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 04 '18 at 13:01

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PySide2 is now available on pypi so a simple

pip install PySide2

should work on Windows, OSX, and linux!

answered Sep 04 '18 at 13:01

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Alas, normal windows 10 users get the error " Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement install (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for install" trying it via pip – 576i Dec 01 '18 at 14:07
It looks like there is no windows package for 2.7 – frmdstryr Dec 05 '18 at 19:43

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 02 '18 at 17:26

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I use Python 3.7 on windows 10 pro, 64bit.

Installing via pip failed for me.

I ended up downloading the wheel from qt directly

QT official download page

and install the downloaded wheel which worked fine.

answered Dec 02 '18 at 17:26

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