On Mac, PySide2 Designer Help & other commands don't work

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STEPHEN_E_VAN_DELLEN | 2020-10-15 23:41:06 UTC | #1

The version of PySide2 pip installs on Mac includes a copy of Designer but Help, Form -> View in Python and maybe other commands say they can't find the programs that implement the commands. It looks like the PySide2 directory structure doesn't match what that version of Designer expects. So do follow the instructions in Chapter 13 in the book to install Qt and run Designer and all will be well. (Mostly, see "On Mac, don't move Designer to Applications".

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On Mac, PySide2 Designer Help & other commands don't work was written by Martin Fitzpatrick .

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.

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