Martin Fitzpatrick
Senior Software Engineer, Python Tutor

Martin Fitzpatrick has been developing Python/Qt apps for 8 years. Building desktop applications to make data-analysis tools more user-friendly, Python was the obvious choice. Starting with Tk, later moving to wxWidgets and finally adopting PyQt.

PyQt5

PyQtGraph errors in Spyder/IPython

Published 07.05.2020
PyQt5

PyQtGraph issue running in console

Published 07.05.2020
PyQt5

PyQtGraph plotting over time

Published 07.05.2020
PyQt5

Signals, Slots and Events: NameError: name 'QMainWindow' is not defined

Published 07.05.2020
PyQt5

Spyder IDE gets stuck

Published 07.05.2020
PyQt5

.ui files with fbs

Published 07.05.2020

Writing for PyQt5 & PySide2

Published 07.05.2020

PasswordEdit

Password editing field, with Show/Hide toggle
PySide2
PySide2 Tutorial

First steps with Qt Designer

Use Qt Designer's drag and drop interface to design your GUI

Implementing QPainter flood fill in PyQt5/PySide

Filling irregular regions in a QPainter canvas
PyQt5 Tutorial

Packaging PyQt5 applications for Windows with PyInstaller & InstallForge

Turn your PyQt5 application into a distributable installer for Windows
PyQt5
PyQt5 Tutorial

Packaging PyQt5 applications for Linux with PyInstaller & fpm

Turn your PyQt5 application into installable Linux packages
PySide2
PySide2 Tutorial

The ModelView Architecture

Qt's MVC-like interface for displaying data in views
PyQt5
PyQt5 Tutorial

Displaying tabular data in Qt5 ModelViews

Create customized table views with conditional formatting, numpy and pandas data sources.
PyQt5
PyQt5 Tutorial

Plotting with Matplotlib

Create PyQt5 plots with the popular Python plotting library

LearnPyQt — One year in, and much more to come.

A quick retrospective on 2019
PySide2
PySide2 Tutorial

System tray & Mac menu bar applications

Add quick access functions to your apps
PySide2
PySide2 Tutorial

Multithreading PySide2 applications with QThreadPool

Run background tasks concurrently without impacting your UI
PyQt5

Goodforbitcoin, a Cryptocurrency market tracker

Track cryptocurrency market values and trade volumes
PyQt5

Moonsweeper

Explore the mysterious moon of Q'tee without getting too close to the alien natives!

PyQt5 vs PySide2

What's the difference between the two Python Qt libraries? ...and what's exactly the same (most of it)

Gradient

Gradient designer with add, drag and edit stops

EqualizerBar

Visualize audio frequency changes
PyQt5
PyQt5 Tutorial

Creating custom GUI widgets in PyQt5

Build a completely functional custom widget from scratch using QPainter
PyQt5
PyQt5 Tutorial

QPainter and Bitmap Graphics

Introduction to the core features of QPainter
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