Error in installing PyQt

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I am following this manual for installing PyQt in Mac but I got the following error:

Monas-MacBook-Pro:sip-4.16.7 mona$ sudo make install
Password:
cp -f sip /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin/sip
cp -f sip.so /Library/Python/3.3/site-packages/sip.so
cp -f /Users/mona/OpenSource/sip-4.16.7/siplib/sip.h /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/include/python3.4m/sip.h
cp -f sipconfig.py /Library/Python/3.3/site-packages/sipconfig.py
cp -f /Users/mona/OpenSource/sip-4.16.7/sipdistutils.py /Library/Python/3.3/site-packages/sipdistutils.py
Monas-MacBook-Pro:sip-4.16.7 mona$ cd ..
Monas-MacBook-Pro:OpenSource mona$ ls
PyQt-mac-gpl-4.11.3     sip-4.16.7
PyQt-mac-gpl-4.11.3.tar.gz  sip-4.16.7.tar.gz
Monas-MacBook-Pro:OpenSource mona$ cd PyQt-mac-gpl-4.11.3
Monas-MacBook-Pro:PyQt-mac-gpl-4.11.3 mona$ python3 configure.py -d /Library/Python/3.3/site-packages/ --use-arch x86_64
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "configure.py", line 32, in <module>
    import sipconfig
ImportError: No module named 'sipconfig'

Any idea how to fix it?

Shouldn't you install to /Library/Python/3.4/site-packages/? — baf
– baf, Commented May 20, 2015 at 8:19
I was just following the manual. Can you please be more elaborative and tell me how or refer me to a less buggy manual? — Mona Jalal
– Mona Jalal, Commented May 20, 2015 at 8:22
That is just a guess, but the manual is for 3.3 version of python. If you installed 3.4 I would assume you have to adjust the path specified with -d option to match the version: -d /Library/Python/3.4/site-packages. Try to rebuild and install both sip and pyQt again with corrected -d option. — baf
– baf, Commented May 20, 2015 at 8:27
@baf Monas-MacBook-Pro:PyQt-mac-gpl-4.11.3 mona$ ls /Library/Python/ 2.3 2.5 2.6 2.7 3.3 — Mona Jalal
– Mona Jalal, Commented May 20, 2015 at 8:28

Ismail · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-14 01:03:03Z

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To get the new version of pyqt wich is pyqt5, you start by installing a version of python 3.5 https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-350/ And you can run the command line: pip3 install pyqt5 (sometimes you will need to write it in the correct format so it will look like : pip3 install PyQt5)

Otherwise you can use brew, first install brew :/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" And when it's done. run : brew install pyqt It should work

edited Oct 14, 2016 at 1:03

answered Oct 14, 2016 at 0:12

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