The answer to your question’s title is “yes”: I recommend never using from … import *, and I discussed the reasons in another very recent answer. Briefly, qualified names are good, barenames are very limited, so the “third option” is optimal (as you’ll be using qualified names, not barenames) among those you present. (Advantages of … Read more
It is not that complicated actually. Relevant Qt widgets are in matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg. FigureCanvasQTAgg and NavigationToolbar2QT are usually what you need. These are regular Qt widgets. You treat them as any other widget. Below is a very simple example with a Figure, Navigation and a single button that draws some random data. I’ve added comments to … Read more
I created a little example that shows 3 different and simple ways of dealing with threads. I hope it will help you find the right approach to your problem. import sys import time from PyQt5.QtCore import (QCoreApplication, QObject, QRunnable, QThread, QThreadPool, pyqtSignal) # Subclassing QThread # http://qt-project.org/doc/latest/qthread.html class AThread(QThread): def run(self): count = 0 while … Read more
Actually i was looking for time.sleep alternative to use in pyqt without using any thread concepts. And the solution i figured out is: from PyQt4 import QtTest QtTest.QTest.qWait(msecs) This works similar to time.sleep making GUI responsive. Thankyou for your answers.