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Python Web Scraping - Second Edition
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Python Web Scraping - Second Edition

by Katharine Jarmul
May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
220 pages
5h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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PyQt or PySide

There are two available Python bindings to the Qt framework, PyQt and PySide. PyQt was first released in 1998 but requires a license for commercial projects. Due to this licensing problem, the company developing Qt, then Nokia and now Digia, later developed Python bindings in 2009 called PySide and released it under the more permissive LGPL license.

There are minor differences between the two bindings but the examples developed here will work with either. The following snippet can be used to import whichever Qt binding is installed:

try:     from PySide.QtGui import *     from PySide.QtCore import *     from PySide.QtWebKit import * except ImportError:     from PyQt4.QtGui import *     from PyQt4.QtCore import *  from PyQt4.QtWebKit import ...
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