The PySide team is proud to announce the first beta release of PySide: Python for Qt. Also, new versions of the PySide toolchain components (API Extractor, Generator Runner, and Shiboken) have been released.

The focus of the beta 1 release has been stabilization. Most of the team’s time has been spent in bug fixing, and not without results: we have fixed a whopping 57 bugs since the previous release!

In addition to fixing bugs, we have also reviewed our Qt Quick support, and as of now, it is perfectly feasible to do QML user interfaces for Python software. The only thing missing is the ability to register QML types from Python; we hope to have this issue resolved soon.

The internal C++ library APIs have been reworked to include any anticipated changes before (and beyond) the 1.0 release. This has forced us to do a yet another library version bump. Unfortunately, this necessitates recompilation of any bindings and repackaging of the libraries. We hope this to be the last library ABI break for a while.

The packages have already been uploaded to extras-devel. To begin Qt development on Python for N900, just install the python-pyside / python-qtmobility metapackages and start rocking!