import sys from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QMainWindow, QApplication, QLabel, QLineEdit, QWidget, QVBoxLayout class MainWindow(QMainWindow): def __init__(self): super().__init__() self.setWindowTitle('My App') self.label = QLabel() self.input = QLineEdit() self.input.textChanged.connect(self.label.setText) layout = QVBoxLayout() layout.addWidget(self.input) layout.addWidget(self.label) container = QWidget() container.setLayout(layout) self.setCentralWidget(container) app = QApplication(sys.argv) window = MainWindow() window.show() sys.exit(app.exec_())