Question

How exactly would I go about doing this? Any advice would help

Answer 1

Use a QtGui.QCoreApplication()

Its intended for console applications that will not need to use QWidgets. Just create it like you would a normal app, create the rest of your app as normal using QObjects, signals and slots. Start an event loop as normal.

Nothing really changes when you write a console based app aside from the fact that you can’t use QWidgets.

from PyQt4 import QtCore

class Hello(QtCore.QObject):

    def __init__(self, msg):
        super(Hello, self).__init__()
        self.msg = msg
        self.timer = QtCore.QTimer(self)
        self.timer.timeout.connect(self.say)
        self.timer.start(500)
        self.i = 0

    def say(self):
        print self.msg
        self.i += 1
        if self.i > 5:
            QtCore.QCoreApplication.instance().quit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QtCore.QCoreApplication(sys.argv)
    hello = Hello("Hello World!")
    sys.exit(app.exec_())