No way to generate relative imports for promoted widgets using `pyuic5`

stefanseefeld commented 5 years ago

I'm using qtcreator to design the UI of a PyQt application. It allows me to bind custom widgets using "widget promotion". While the UI for this seems to be very C++-centric (the dialog asks to specify a "header file"), the pyuic5 tool seems to handle it gracefully, i.e. mapping the header filename to a Python module.

However, the generated import statement uses absolute imports ("from widgets import CustomWidget"), and there is no way to instruct it to use relative imports ("from .widgets import CustomWidget"), even when using the --import-from=. option.

Am I missing something or is this indeed not possible at present ? (It would be great to make this possible !)

baoboa commented 5 years ago

I'm a not able to help you there, please ask this question on the mailing list. good luck

synapticarbors commented 5 years ago

@stefanseefeld -- did you ever determine a solution for this?

stefanseefeld commented 5 years ago

Unfortunately I haven't, no.

stefanseefeld commented 5 years ago

Let me try to answer your questions:

Yes, I have a few custom widgets that I want to reference from the designer
I don't understand your question about PyQt-tools. How does this relate to my question ?
I don't want to interpret the .ui file at runtime because that is too limiting
I'm fully aware of the difference between relative and absolute imports, or otherwise this whole issue wouldn't make any sense, would it. :-)

I have no clue about your mailbox, and don't understand what you are proposing, or why. It doesn't seem relevant to this issue.

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No way to generate relative imports for promoted widgets using `pyuic5` #54