pyQode is a flexible source code editor widget for Python Qt applications. pyQode is a library/widget, not an IDE. You can see it as an alternative to QScintilla.

pyQode is a namespace package made up of the following official packages:

• pyqode.core: core package
• pyqode.python: python support (code completion, ...)
• pyqode.widgets: useful widgets for pyqode apps
• pyqode.designer: Starts Qt designer with all pyqode plugins

pyqode.core is the foundation package, it contains the pyqode base classes (QCodeEdit, Mode, Panel) and a set of builtin modes and panels that are useful for any kind of code editor. With pyqode.core you can already create a generic code editor (similar to gedit, notepad++) with only a few lines of code.

Here are the core features:

• supports PySide and/or PyQt4
• supports Python 2 and/or Python 3
• simple widget based on QPlainTextEdit
• easily customisable (modes and panels)
• native look and feel close to Qt creator
• builtin modes and panels (folding, line number, code completion, syntax highlighting)
• Qt Designer plugin

pyQode is licensed under the MIT license.

pyqode.core depends on the following libraries:

• Python 2.7 or Python 3 (>= 3.2)
• PyQt4 or PySide
• pygments

You need to install PyQt4 or PySide by yourself.

Then you can install pyqode using pip:

$ pip install pyqode.core

The public API is exposed by the pyqode.core package.

Here is a simple example using PyQt4:

# simple example using PyQt4
import sys
import PyQt4  # just to tell pyqode we want to use PyQt4.
import pyqode.core
from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication


def main():
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    editor = pyqode.core.QGenericCodeEdit()
    editor.openFile(__file__)
    editor.resize(800, 600)
    editor.show()
    return app.exec_()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main())

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• Documentation
• Wiki

Here are a few screenshots of the gui integration example on several different platforms:

• Windows 7:

• Ubuntu:

• Linux Mint:

• KDE:

• KDE with a dark color scheme:

• Gnome: