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.. _pyside-api:

|project| Modules
=================

Basic modules
-------------
  These are the main modules that will help you build a Widget based UI.

  :mod:`Qt Core <PySide2.QtCore>`
    Provides core non-GUI functionality, like signal and slots, properties, base classes of item models, serialization, etc.
  :mod:`Qt GUI <PySide2.QtGui>`
    Extends QtCore with GUI functionality: Events, windows and screens, OpenGL and raster-based 2D painting, images.
  :mod:`Qt Widgets <PySide2.QtWidgets>`
    Ready to use Widgets for your application, including also graphical elements for your UI.

QML and Qt Quick
----------------
  If you want to use the `QML Language <https://doc.qt.io/qt-5.qmlapplications>`, these
  modules will help you interact with it from Python.

  :mod:`Qt QML <PySide2.QtQml>`
    Base Python API to interact with the QML module.
  :mod:`Qt Quick <PySide2.QtQuick>`
    Provides classes for embedding Qt Quick in Qt applications.
  :mod:`Qt QuickWidgets <PySide2.QtQuickWidgets>`
    Provides the QQuickWidget class for embedding Qt Quick in widget-based applications.

Data visualization
------------------

  Charts and diagrams: these modules provide a large amount
  of classes that can help you include these elements in your UI.

  :mod:`Qt Charts <PySide2.QtCharts>`
    Provides a set of easy to use chart components.
  :mod:`Qt DataVisualization <PySide2.QtDataVisualization>`
    Provides a way to visualize data in 3D as bar, scatter, and surface graphs.

Multimedia
-----------

  Audio, video, and hardware interaction: check these modules if you are
  looking for multimedia solutions.

  :mod:`Qt Multimedia <PySide2.QtMultimedia>`
    Provides low-level multimedia functionality.
  :mod:`Qt MultimediaWidgets <PySide2.QtMultimediaWidgets>`
    Provides the widget-based multimedia API.

WebEngine
---------

  If your project is based on a browser or the features around web
  based applications, these modules will help you to interact with them.

  :mod:`Qt WebEngineWidgets <PySide2.QtWebEngineWidgets>`
    Provides widgets that can handle web content.
  :mod:`Qt WebChannel <PySide2.QtWebChannel>`
    Enables peer-to-peer communication between a server and a client
    (HTML/JavaScript or QML application).

All the modules
---------------

  Here is a complete list of modules supported by |pymodname|.

  :doc:`Modules <modules>`