PySide6
Python bindings for Qt framework enabling cross-platform desktop GUI applications.
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How PySide6 is used
PySide6 is a dependency in 8 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 31 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is pywebview (8 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Requests (58.1%), psutil (58.1%), pytest (51.6%).
PySide6 popularity over time
Gid Score 47: downloads 63, use in agent projects 34, GitHub stars n/a, downloads trend 64 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with PySide6
| Requests | 58.1% of PySide6 projects · 8.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| psutil | 58.1% of PySide6 projects · 30.8× more than average |
| pytest | 51.6% of PySide6 projects · 12.6× more than average |
| NumPy | 48.4% of PySide6 projects · 8.3× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 48.4% of PySide6 projects · 5.3× more than average |
| Pillow | 41.9% of PySide6 projects · 10.9× more than average |
| Model Context Protocol SDK (Python) | 38.7% of PySide6 projects · 4.8× more than average |
| packaging | 38.7% of PySide6 projects · 26.4× more than average |
From all 31 projects in our scan that use PySide6, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list PySide6 as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install pyside6 |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (30), Other (1) |
| Example projects | ingelibre/ingetrazo, tuotuonuts/VoxSub, gglessner/hack3270, timxx/qgitc, SY-007-Research/interview_agent |
Alternatives to PySide6
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside PySide6 are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pywebview pypi · new in the catalog Desktop GUIs for Python apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. |
46 | 8 (0.5%) | 440K | 6,120 | BSD |
| CustomTkinter pypi Modern GUI library for Python with improved aesthetics over native Tkinter. |
38 | 4 (0.2%) | 170K | — | MIT |
| PyQt6 pypi Python bindings for Qt framework enabling cross-platform desktop application development. |
42 | 3 (0.2%) | 366K | — | GPL-3.0-only |
| PyQt5 pypi Python bindings for Qt framework for building desktop applications. |
44 | 2 (0.1%) | 439K | — | GPL v3 |
| Flet pypi · new in the catalog Builds web, desktop and mobile apps in Python with Flutter UI. |
41 | 1 (0.1%) | 75.3K | 17.4K | Apache-2.0 |
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