Simple install of python in Windows O.S.

Today I create this simple video tutorial for new python users.

In this video tutorial I show you how easy is to install the python programming language in Windows O.S.

After install you can use the command python and you can use the python shell to test this programming language.

Also, you can create a script file with any name.

for example name the file: test.py and run in the windows shell with: python test.py.

You can see this video tutorial on my youtube account.

Python Qt6 : Install and use python with Visual Studio.

Visual Studio is a very good tool for python programming language development.

Today I will show you how to use it with Visual Studio on a Windows operating system.

If you don't have Python install then start the Visual Studio installer and from all presents select the Python development workload.

Start Visual Studio and open a folder or open an empty file and save with the python language-specific extension: py.

Select the Python environment and add the new package with pip tool.

This is the python script I used to test:

import sys
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget

def main():

    app = QApplication(sys.argv)

    w = QWidget()
    w.resize(250, 200)
    w.move(300, 300)

    w.setWindowTitle('Simple')
    w.show()

    sys.exit(app.exec())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

You can see the video tutorial about how you can use it:

Python Qt6 : First example on Fedora 34 Linux distro.

Qt for Python is the project that provides the official set of Python bindings (PySide6) that will supercharge your Python applications. While the Qt APIs are world renowned, there are more reasons why you should consider Qt for Python.

I tested with Fedora 34 Linux distro:

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf search PyQt6
Last metadata expiration check: 2:03:10 ago on Tue 06 Jul 2021 08:52:41 PM EEST.
No matches found. 

First stable release for PyQt6 was on Jan 2021 by Riverbank Computing Ltd. under GPL or commercial and can be used with Python 3.

Let's install with pip tool:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ /usr/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
...
  WARNING: The scripts pip, pip3 and pip3.9 are installed in '/home/mythcat/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, 
  use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed pip-21.1.3
[mythcat@desk ~]$ pip install PyQt6 --user
...

Let's see a simple example with this python package:

import sys
from PyQt6.QtCore import Qt
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QLabel

def main():
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    win = QLabel()
    win.resize(640, 498)
    win.setText("Qt is awesome!!!")
    win.show()
    app.exec()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

I tested and run well.

Python Qt5 : Parse files and show image with QPixmap .

This tutorial is about how to create a simple script in python with a few features:

You can see I used these python packages: argparse, PIL, glob, io, PyQt5 to fulfill the issue.

The PIL python package is used to use PNG images.

The argparse python package is used to get inputs from arguments.

The glob python package is used to parse folders and files.

The io python package is used to open images:

The PyQt5 python package is used to show images on canvas:

This is the source code in python I used to parse a folder with images and show one image:

import os
import io
import sys
import glob

from PIL import Image
from PIL import UnidentifiedImageError

from PyQt5.QtGui import QPixmap
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QMainWindow, QApplication, QLabel

import argparse
from pathlib import Path

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()

parser.add_argument("files_path", type=Path, help='PATH of folder with files ')
parser.add_argument('-p','--print_files', action='store_true', 
    help='Print files from folder ')
parser.add_argument('-s','--show', action='store_true', 
    help='Show image in PyQt5 canvas!')
args = vars(parser.parse_args())

p = parser.parse_args()
print(p.files_path, type(p.files_path), p.files_path.exists())
print(p.show)
files = os.listdir(p.files_path)
file_list = []
image_list = []
bad_files_list =[]

if args['print_files']: 
    print("These are files from folder "+str(p.files_path))
    for f in file_list:
	    print(f)

images_ext = str(Path(p.files_path))+'/*.png'
print("images_ext: "+images_ext)
for filename in glob.glob(images_ext): #assuming png
    try:
        f = open(filename, 'rb')
        file = io.BytesIO(f.read())
        im = Image.open(file)
        image_list.append(filename)
        print(str(len(image_list))+" good file is"+filename)
    except Image.UnidentifiedImageError:
        bad_files_list.append(str(p.files_path)+"/"+str(filename))

for f in bad_files_list:
	print("bad file is : " + f)


if args['show']:
    value = input("Please enter the index of PNG image :\n")
    try:
        int(value)
        print("Image number select default : " + value)      
        value = int(value)
        if value &lt= len(image_list):
            value = int(value)
        else:
            print("The number image selected is greater then len of list images!")
            value = len(image_list)
    except:
        print("This is not a number, I set first image number.")
        value = 1

    class MainWindow(QMainWindow):

        def __init__(self):
            super(MainWindow, self).__init__()
            self.title = "Image Viewer"
            self.setWindowTitle(self.title)

            label = QLabel(self)
            pixmap = QPixmap(image_list[int(value)])
            label.setPixmap(pixmap)
            self.setCentralWidget(label)
            self.resize(pixmap.width(), pixmap.height())

    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    w = MainWindow()
    w.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

These are the output of the script:

[mythcat@desk PIL001]$ python  tool001.py 
usage: tool001.py [-h] [-p] [-s] files_path
tool001.py: error: the following arguments are required: files_path
[mythcat@desk PIL001]$ python  tool001.py ~/Pictures/
/home/mythcat/Pictures  True
False
images_ext: /home/mythcat/Pictures/*.png
1 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/keyboard.png
2 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/Fedora_The_Pirate_CaribbeanHunt.png
3 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/website.png
4 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/Screenshot from 2021-02-19 19-24-32.png
...
97 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/Screenshot from 2021-07-03 17-31-23.png
98 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/Screenshot from 2021-07-03 17-46-05.png
bad file is : /home/mythcat/Pictures//home/mythcat/Pictures/Screenshot from 2021-02-07 14-58-56.png
bad file is : /home/mythcat/Pictures//home/mythcat/Pictures/evolution_logo.png
[mythcat@desk PIL001]$ python  tool001.py ~/Pictures/ -p
/home/mythcat/Pictures  True
False
These are files from folder /home/mythcat/Pictures
images_ext: /home/mythcat/Pictures/*.png
1 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/keyboard.png
2 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/Fedora_The_Pirate_CaribbeanHunt.png
3 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/website.png
...
97 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/Screenshot from 2021-07-03 17-31-23.png
98 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/Screenshot from 2021-07-03 17-46-05.png
bad file is : /home/mythcat/Pictures//home/mythcat/Pictures/Screenshot from 2021-02-07 14-58-56.png
bad file is : /home/mythcat/Pictures//home/mythcat/Pictures/evolution_logo.png
[mythcat@desk PIL001]$ python  tool001.py ~/Pictures/ -s
/home/mythcat/Pictures  True
True
images_ext: /home/mythcat/Pictures/*.png
...
97 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/Screenshot from 2021-07-03 17-31-23.png
98 good file is/home/mythcat/Pictures/Screenshot from 2021-07-03 17-46-05.png
bad file is : /home/mythcat/Pictures//home/mythcat/Pictures/Screenshot from 2021-02-07 14-58-56.png
bad file is : /home/mythcat/Pictures//home/mythcat/Pictures/evolution_logo.png
Please enter the index of PNG image :
6
Image number select default : 6