[Python-checkins] closes bpo-29017: Update the bindings for Qt information with PySide2 (GH-20149)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ef2f9acf8fc813f66523e7702654f919d20ff0c3
commit: ef2f9acf8fc813f66523e7702654f919d20ff0c3
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-05-29T19:04:24-07:00
summary:

closes bpo-29017: Update the bindings for Qt information with PySide2 (GH-20149)


Reference to PySide has been removed has it is for Qt 4, which has reached end of life.
(cherry picked from commit 4649202ea75d48e1496e99911709824ca2d3170e)

Co-authored-by: Samuel Gaist <samuel.gaist at idiap.ch>

files:
M Doc/library/othergui.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/othergui.rst b/Doc/library/othergui.rst
index 4548459f8e261..48c1f2754111a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/othergui.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/othergui.rst
@@ -30,10 +30,11 @@ available for Python:
       for generating bindings for C++ libraries as Python classes, and
       is specifically designed for Python.
 
-   `PySide <https://wiki.qt.io/PySide>`_
-      PySide is a newer binding to the Qt toolkit, provided by Nokia.
-      Compared to PyQt, its licensing scheme is friendlier to non-open source
-      applications.
+   `PySide2 <https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/>`_
+      Also known as the Qt for Python project, PySide2 is a newer binding to the
+      Qt toolkit. It is provided by The Qt Company and aims to provide a
+      complete port of PySide to Qt 5. Compared to PyQt, its licensing scheme is
+      friendlier to non-open source applications.
 
    `wxPython <https://www.wxpython.org>`_
       wxPython is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for Python that is built around
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ available for Python:
       an XML-based resource format and more, including an ever growing library
       of user-contributed modules.
 
-PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and more
+PyGTK, PyQt, PySide2, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and more
 widgets than Tkinter. In addition, there are many other GUI toolkits for
 Python, both cross-platform, and platform-specific. See the `GUI Programming
 <https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming>`_ page in the Python Wiki for a



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