How can you easily select between PyQt or PySide at runtime?

Question

I would like to do something like this in one source file, QT.py:

import sys
import PyQt4

sys.modules[\"Qt\"] = PyQt4

Then import this fil

Answer 1

You can conditionally import libraries. Here is a bit of a hacky example, where you check for a command-line argument of "PyQt4":

import sys

if sys.argv[-1] == 'PyQt4':
    import PyQt4
    sys.modules["Qt"] = PyQt4
else:
    import Qt
    from Qt.QtCore import *