Hide PyQt app from taskbar

Question

I'm a beginner in PyQt. I was trying to create a simple app to try some of the toolkit's many features. My question is, how can I hide the app icon from the taskbar? I don't want the user to be able to see the icon in taskbar and to minimize it using this icon. Is there any window flags that I can use to achieve this?

Answer 1

Adapted from this thread:

import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)

    widget = QWidget()

    mainWindow = QMainWindow(widget)
    mainWindow.show()

    sys.exit(app.exec_())