How to make a loading gif in PyQT5?

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PyQt5 is a GUI toolkit which can be used to develop GUI application in Python. It provides many modules that can help to build various components of the GUI application.

Installation:

pip install PyQt5

Gif Link: https://loading.io/

Approach:

Import module
Create window and labels
Load GIF
Start GIF using start()
Add mechanism to stop GIF using stop()
Execute code

Example:

Python3

import sys 
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets 
from PyQt5.QtGui import QMovie 
from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt 
  
  
class LoadingGif(object): 
  
    def mainUI(self, FrontWindow): 
        FrontWindow.setObjectName("FTwindow") 
        FrontWindow.resize(320, 300) 
        self.centralwidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(FrontWindow) 
        self.centralwidget.setObjectName("main-widget") 
  
        # Label Create 
        self.label = QtWidgets.QLabel(self.centralwidget) 
        self.label.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(25, 25, 200, 200)) 
        self.label.setMinimumSize(QtCore.QSize(250, 250)) 
        self.label.setMaximumSize(QtCore.QSize(250, 250)) 
        self.label.setObjectName("lb1") 
        FrontWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget) 
  
        # Loading the GIF 
        self.movie = QMovie("loader.gif") 
        self.label.setMovie(self.movie) 
  
        self.startAnimation() 
  
    # Start Animation 
  
    def startAnimation(self): 
        self.movie.start() 
  
    # Stop Animation(According to need) 
    def stopAnimation(self): 
        self.movie.stop() 
  
  
app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv) 
window = QtWidgets.QMainWindow() 
demo = LoadingGif() 
demo.mainUI(window) 
window.show() 
sys.exit(app.exec_()) 