Where is pyside-uic?

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I'm trying to use Qt Designer and pyside-uic mydesign.ui > design.py

however, this program doesn't exist. I looked in site packages under python 2.7, and I see: pyside-lupdate.exe pyside-rcc.exe

and a bunch of other programs, but there is no such thing as pyside-uic.exe ... why ?? Why is it missing from the installation package? Where do I get it?

yeah, I read it but it didn't mean much to me. was hoping it would mean something to you, sorry if it didn't. — jcomeau_ictx, Jul 14 '11 at 04:19

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 02 '14 at 19:56

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If you installed PySide with homebrew, you need to install pyside-tools package also to get these command line tools:

$ brew install pyside-tools

answered Sep 02 '14 at 19:56

kissgyorgy

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score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '11 at 20:10

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You should see a /Python27/Scripts/pyside-uic.exe. But I'm wondering why it's not visible (not executable). Maybe it's a packaging problem (permissions, etc). You could try to call it using the complete path.

answered Jul 13 '11 at 20:10

Luck

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Thanks for finding it, I had searched but search couldn't find it. Now the problem is this: http://i.imgur.com/VOtRO.png – Dexter Jul 15 '11 at 15:48
would the wrong architecture cause that? meaning: 64-bit executable on a 32-bit system or vice versa. – jcomeau_ictx Jul 15 '11 at 16:37
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You're typing "python-uic", not "pyside-uic" on that screenshot. – aukaost Jul 16 '11 at 20:42

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 07 '16 at 16:24

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When I installed using conda, the py-uic.exe was not unpacked. The problem was fixed by uninstalling and using pip.

>pip install pyside

answered Sep 07 '16 at 16:24

Mitch

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 31 '14 at 23:23

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For Mac it worked for me running the following command (needed to have macports installed):

sudo port install py27-pyside-tools

It installs on my Python 2.7 environment. I hope it helps.

answered Aug 31 '14 at 23:23

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 03 '20 at 07:36

Since a couple years passed by and some things were fixed: I guess the official answer would now be:

Use uic.exe! But how?

So although the official docs still lack any info about it you can now compile .ui files to Python directly with this executable shipped with the PySide2 package you get via pip install PySide2. This is how you would write it:

uic.exe -g python your_design.ui -o your_design_ui.py

Where your_design.ui is the Qt Designer file and your_design_ui.py the target Python file to generate. Voilà!

Btw: here is the help from uic -?

C:\Python38\Lib\site-packages\PySide2>uic.exe -h
Usage: uic.exe [options] [uifile]
Qt User Interface Compiler version 5.15.0

Options:
-?, -h, --help                Displays help on commandline options.
--help-all                    Displays help including Qt specific options.
-v, --version                 Displays version information.
-d, --dependencies            Display the dependencies.
-o, --output <file>           Place the output into <file>
-a, --no-autoconnection       Do not generate a call to
                                QObject::connectSlotsByName().
-p, --no-protection           Disable header protection.
-n, --no-implicit-includes    Disable generation of #include-directives.
-s, --no-stringliteral        Deprecated. The use of this option won't take
                                any effect.
--postfix <postfix>           Postfix to add to all generated classnames.
--tr, --translate <function>  Use <function> for i18n.
--include <include-file>      Add #include <include-file> to <file>.
-g, --generator <python|cpp>  Select generator.
--idbased                     Use id based function for i18n
--from-imports                Python: generate imports relative to '.'

Arguments:
[uifile]                      Input file (*.ui), otherwise stdin.

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 23 '19 at 19:02

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In case someone need it, for Ubuntu 18.04 I need to install pyside-tools package first. Hope that helps.

sudo apt-get install pyside-tools

edited Jan 23 '19 at 19:02

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answered Jan 23 '19 at 09:00

Abdurrahman Shofy Adianto

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this does not work `E: Unable to locate package pyside-tools` – Danish Xavier Feb 12 '23 at 13:21

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