PyInstaller cannot find QtCompat.loadUi

A regular print(QtCompat) will give you this:

['QFileDialog', 'QHeaderView', '__doc__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', '_cli', '_convert', 'getCppPointer', 'loadUi', 'load_ui', 'qInstallMessageHandler', 'setSectionResizeMode', 'translate', 'wrapInstance']

But if using PyInstaller to build/freeze an application out of your python script (such as an .exe), the same command results in the following (where loadUi and load_ui are missing):

['QFileDialog', 'QHeaderView', '__doc__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', '_cli', '_convert', 'getCppPointer', 'qInstallMessageHandler', 'setSectionResizeMode', 'translate', 'wrapInstance']

This is with Qt.py version 1.1.0.

I haven’t found a workaround so far… 😢

[fredrikaverpil]

Another workaround, using a PyInstaller hook. Add a hook hook-Qt.py with contents:

hiddenimports = ["PySide2.QtXml", "PySide2.QtUiTools"]

This triggers the imports in hiddenimports on import Qt and makes Qt.QtCompat.loadUi available as expected.

[fredrikaverpil]

Oops! Classic copy/paste mistake. Sorry. I’ll switch those two lines around.