The PySide team is proud to announce the first beta release of PySide: Python for Qt. Also, new versions of the PySide toolchain components (API Extractor, Generator Runner, and Shiboken) have been released.

The focus of the beta 1 release has been stabilization. Most of the team’s time has been spent in bug fixing, and not without results: we have fixed a whopping 57 bugs since the previous release!

In addition to fixing bugs, we have also reviewed our Qt Quick support, and as of now, it is perfectly feasible to do QML user interfaces for Python software. The only thing missing is the ability to register QML types from Python; we hope to have this issue resolved soon.

The internal C++ library APIs have been reworked to include any anticipated changes before (and beyond) the 1.0 release. This has forced us to do a yet another library version bump. Unfortunately, this necessitates recompilation of any bindings and repackaging of the libraries. We hope this to be the last library ABI break for a while.

The packages have already been uploaded to extras-devel. To begin Qt development on Python for N900, just install the python-pyside / python-qtmobility metapackages and start rocking!

Are these bindings fully compatible with PyQt ? Juste replace "from PyQt4" with "from PySide" ?

Great work btw.

PS : a link for PySide : http://www.pyside.org/

PPS : RTFM Differences Between PySide and PyQt

As you have pointed out in your second link, most of times it's possible just to replace one by another and everything will work.

great news but will pyside get supported on symbian mobiles?

I will never buy an symbianphone but now when there is some S60 phonees with Qt/qtqquick It is important that python rxist on tose too until nokia get the damn thing done and release more lnuxbased phones

Python must stay and nokia should support it

Btw, I'm working on some tutorials that might be helpful for developers wanting to start out with the new PySide release and QML. You'll find them under http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/PySideDocumentation in the section "Application Component Tutorials".

PySide only supports PyQt’s API 2 (see PSEP 101 [pyside.org]) for details. Therefore Qt classes such as QStrings, QStringLists, and QVariants are not available on PySide. Instead, you should simply use native Python datatypes.

Yippeeee!