For this chapter, and most of the rest of the book, you're going to need the following:
- A PC running Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, or a 64-bit flavor of GNU/Linux.
- Python 3, available from http://www.python.org. The code in this book requires Python 3.7 or later.
- PyQt 5.12, which you can install from the Python Package Index using this command:
$ pip install --user PyQt5
- Linux users may also wish to install PyQt5 from their distribution's package repositories.
- Qt Designer 4.9, a WYSIWYG GUI building tool available from https://www.qt.io. See the following section for installation instructions.
- The example code from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-GUI-Programming-with-Python/tree/master/Chapter01.
Check out the following video to see the code in action: http://bit.ly/2M5OUeg