PyKDE4 Documentation

PyKDE4 is a set of Python bindings for the KDE4 kdelibs. It provides:

• The ability to write KDE4 applications using Python
• The ability to create graphical interfaces using KDE4 and Qt4 widgets
• The ability to create fully featured web browsers, text editors or other document viewers completely from Python, or embed those features in your application
• The ability to code at a higher level of abstraction, since KDE4 and Python provide convenient access to numerous features programs regularly require.
• Rapid development of applications, especially when combined with integrated development environments like eric4 and tools like QtDesigner or QtLinguist
• PyKDE4 provides access to 7 modules, 34 namespaces, and about 600 classes, 10,000 methods, 350 enums and 100 variables

The documentation set provides important information about using PyKDE4, tutorials on programming with Python and PyKDE4, numerous example programs, and a documentation/example browser (pykdedocs) that integrates all of this information into a easily used framework.

If your are using pykdedocs to read this documentation, please take the time to read the docs for pykdedocs itself, including adding/editing bookmarks, and enabling/disabling samples.

PyKDE4 is built on software developed by

• Riverbank Computing (sip, PyQt4 and the original PyKDE version)
• KDE project programmers (the KDE Desktop Environment and kdelibs)
• Python programmers (the Python language and extensions)

pykdedocs and PyKDE4 are licensed under the GPL and LGPL respectively come with absolutely no warranty. See this page for details.

You can access the full documentation set beginning with the Table of Contents. Module and class information is in the class reference. If you already have PyKDE4 installed and just want to update the documentation and examples, or pykdedocs, see the Installation page for details about installing the docs without rebuilding PyKDE4.