Python

MicroPython Optimizes Python for Microcontrollers

Python is one of the most popular and fastest growing programming languages. It is the recommended language on the Raspberry Pi platform (where Pi is a reference to Python Interpreter) and is increasingly used on desktop applications. The Qt Framework, for example, has an officially…

We Ported a Qt App from C++ to Python. Here's What Happened.

Earlier this year, The Qt Company announced that Python would be officially supported in Qt via the Qt For Python (formerly PySide2) Python bindings and tooling. In June 2018, the first technical preview was offered, built against the Qt 5.11 release.I have some experience with Python, including…

Integrating a Python-based Custom Widget into Qt Designer

In an earlier blog post (1) I described how to create a widget with a Qt Designer plugin interface so it can be viewed within Qt Designer. With the increased interest in using Qt from the Python programming language, I asked one of our developers to reproduce the same example, …

Control Raspberry Pi GPIO Pins from Python

In this blog post we'll look at how to control Raspberry Pi GPIO pins from the Python programming language using two different modules: Rpi.GPIO and Gpiozero.A Bit About PythonPython [1] is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language that has been around since 1991. It is…

C++ Meets Python: Integrating LLMs into Your Application

You want to integrate the latest large language model (LLM) into your application, but you face a dilemma: your code base is in C++ while machine learning (ML) frameworks predominantly use Python. We faced such a challenge recently and here is what we learned.First, a little background. Our…