Ignore the import generated for icon(.qrc) file while converting the .ui file to .py using pyside2-uic

PratikTayshete

I have created a .ui file using qt5-designer. Also using the designer I created a .qrc file to store all the icons that I will be using throughout the app. The issue I am facing is that when I convert the .ui file to .py file using the following command pyside2-uic appUI.ui -o appUI.py, I also get an additional import of the icons file which is import icons_rc in the converted .py file.

Is there an argument that I can use with pyside2-uic that will ignore that import because I want to keep the icons.qrc file in a separate location and import it from there in my main file.

BamboozledBaboon

@PratikTayshete you can run pyside2-uic --help to get a list of arguments. I don't see anything to ignore rc, but --from-imports might be what you want? It'll use a relative path to the imported file.

PratikTayshete

@BamboozledBaboon I tried using the --from-imports argument but it is still adding an import given below:

The structure of my project is this:

And I am trying to import the icons.py file in my app.py file as given below:

When the execute the app.py file, it gives me this error:

JonB

@PratikTayshete
I don't have pyside2-uic, but I don't see that --from-imports does anything other than alter import ... to from . import ....

There isn't a way to suppress importing icons_rc. But pyside2-uic is just some Python script itself, so easy to change. I look in https://github.com/pyside/pyside2-tools/blob/dev/pyside2-uic to see its source. The import-writing function, def write_import(), is at https://github.com/pyside/pyside2-tools/blob/f68388cf547c0d63a5d4a145f65aa9fa90529d52/pyside2uic/Compiler/misc.py#L27 (called from https://github.com/pyside/pyside2-tools/blob/f68388cf547c0d63a5d4a145f65aa9fa90529d52/pyside2uic/Compiler/compiler.py#L99). I'm sure you could tweak that to exclude your icons_rc if required.

Or, write a couple of lines script file to edit the .py file in-place to remove that line.

StarterKit

Hi @PratikTayshete
I'm with uic from PySide6 currently but some time ago my project was on PySide2 and it had a lot of ui-files at that time translated to python with pyside2-uic.
What looks strange for me - this line import icons_rc, how it appears in you py-file.
I.e. what pyside2-uic does - it translates one file format (ui) into another (py). And in my case there was no such line. It brings a thought into my head that your initial ui-file is somehow linked with qrc-resource file that your use. Is it true?
I.e. I see 2 options here:

your don't need resources in your ui-file but by some reason it contains it. Then you should clean your source ui-file (To be on a safe side you may create a brand new ui-file with a couple of simple widgets and pass it to uic in order to see if this line appear in output or not)
you use resources in your ui-file, for example to have some icons in some places. In this case I belive it is some architectural restriction about how Qt expects your project should be sturctured. In this case probably more brainstrorming is needed about what you actually want to achieve.

BamboozledBaboon

@PratikTayshete
I'm too new to this to suggest a proper solution... but this seems to work for my for pyside6 to correctly import the _rc.py file

pyside6-uic appUI.ui -o appUI.py --absolute-imports --python-paths ./icons/

Note: When I run pyside6-uic --help I see the following

--rc-prefix                     Python: Generate "rc_file" instead of
                                  "file_rc" import

This suggest to me that you are expected to name of your compiled resource python files to either prefix or suffix with rc_ or _rc respectively.