PyQt Code Editor

This code is under development and not ready for use

Fully featured code-editor widgets for PyQt

Copyright 2025 Sebastiaan Mathôt

About

This is a set of code-editor widgets for PyQt. They are inspired by PyQode, and contain much of the same functionality, but in a cleaner and more modern codebase.

Features:

• A splittable, tabbed editor panel
• Project explorer
• Syntax highlighting
• Code completion
• Code checking (linting)
• Code symbol navigation
• Search/ replace
• Completion of paired characers (e.g. brackets, quotes)
• Automatic indentation (Python)
• Zoom

Usage

First, install all dependencies using:

pip install .
pip install pyqt6  # or pyqt5

Next, start one of the example scripts:

python example_one_editor.py
python example_full_editor.py

License

PyQt Code Editor is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.