Passing extra arguments to PyQt slots

The worker thread is implemented as a PyQt thread rather than a Python thread since we want to take advantage of the signals and slots mechanism

Connecting Built-In PySidePyQt Signals Qt widgets have a number of signals built in For example, when a QPushButton is clicked, it emits its

pyqt slot The signal can be connected to a slot , which needs to be Python callable (in other words, a method or a class, anything implementing the __call

golden gallina slot The worker thread is implemented as a PyQt thread rather than a Python thread since we want to take advantage of the signals and slots mechanism