Python Programs Console inside pyqt GUI

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Alright so im wanting to create a pyqt gui that has little consoles inside the program that things can be printed to. let me explain further more. so if you would run a program without any gui interface like this

import os
name = raw_input("What is your name? ")
print "Hello " + str(name) = "How are you?"
os.system('pause')

everything would run inside of the cmd. i am wanting to make a pyqt gui that is basicly the cmd but i would like to add other buttons around the embedded console if someone could teach me how to make this that would be amazing. thank you so much in advance!

Do you want to create a console where python code is executed? — eyllanesc, Feb 24 '17 at 06:43
Possible duplicate of [How to embed a Python interpreter in a PyQT widget](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2758159/how-to-embed-a-python-interpreter-in-a-pyqt-widget) — eyllanesc, Feb 24 '17 at 06:50
@eyllanesc im trying to make a program that prints things into a console in a gui. in the code i am going to be printing things like name: birthday: Favorite food: but i dont wan't the console in the gui to be able to accept code back like the python shell — Tyrell, Feb 24 '17 at 07:00
similar to this: http://www.codeprogress.com/cpp/libraries/qt/images/QPlainTextEditFind%20Example.png ? — eyllanesc, Feb 24 '17 at 07:06
@eyllanesc somewhat yes. the text part where it says hello hello will code be able to load in there? like if i where to do print name: Mark time.sleep(1) print birthday: 1/11/1111 — Tyrell, Feb 24 '17 at 07:10
This code will be in another script and you want the output to be displayed in the console? — eyllanesc, Feb 24 '17 at 07:15
In a gui there should be blocking code like `sleep()`, it is better to use a timer. — eyllanesc, Feb 24 '17 at 07:18
Neither `os.system ('pause')` since the widget will maintain the impression. — eyllanesc, Feb 24 '17 at 07:19
What I understand is what you want in a gui to print texts and get attached — eyllanesc, Feb 24 '17 at 07:21
You can be precise in your code since your question is broad. — eyllanesc, Feb 24 '17 at 07:24
no not in the console of the program but in a little gui console — Tyrell, Feb 24 '17 at 07:27
Do you just want the output of this script to be displayed on the console? — eyllanesc, Feb 24 '17 at 07:48
fixed? meaning the person who runs the program cant delete it from the gui console if so yes i dont want them to be able to edit it in the console. — Tyrell, Feb 24 '17 at 07:49

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 25 '17 at 21:51

You're thinking too much into this.

You want to:

Show the form
Make the text section read-only
Run your piece of code which generates your display text
Make the text section read-write
Add the display text to the text section
Make the text section read-only again

Use a QTextEdit to hold your text.

The command to make the QTextEdit read-only is:

QTextEdit.setReadOnly (self, bool ro)

So in practice this would be:

my_text_edit.setReadOnly(True)

and to change back to read-write:

my_text_edit.setReadOnly(False)

Python Programs Console inside pyqt GUI

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