bug#21813: 24.5; python.el & Qt (PySide) - widgets remain hidden

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Angus Melville <anguscmelville@gmail.com> writes:

> The following lines should make a QT widget appear on the screen, and will do 
> if
> run direcly from IDLE or from iPython notebook:
>
> import sys
> from PySide import QtGui

[...]

> However if run from EMACS using the default python.el mode, no widget
> will pop up on the screen.

(This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)

I tried reproducing this in Emacs 28, but I apparently do not have the
correct libraries installed, and after "apt install" on everything that
seemed likely, I still get

ImportError: No module named PySide

Anybody know what I should be installing?

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