[PyKDE] help with PyQt Sip and QT...

[Phil Thompson]

On Friday 29 August 2003 8:20 pm, Andrea Pertosa wrote:
> Hi all, I recently posted this to the tutor python mailing list but
> someone suggested the PythonKDE mail list too.. so here goes...
>
> Thank you for reading this. I assure you I did my part researching the
> problem that I'm encountering but without luck, so I'm
> afraid I'm going to have to ask.
>
> I'm experimenting with QT, PyQt, and Python and I'm having some
> difficulties.
>
> First of all let me tell you that I'm a Windows illiterate since my
> primary development platform is a SGI IRIX, so please bear with me.
>
> I'm running on a Dell laptop with WinXP Pro. I installed Qt version
> 3.2.0.
>
> I installed PyQt (the compiled package from riverbank) PyQt-WinNC-3.8
> that, according to the web site, contains the SIP.
>
> I installed the python.org distribution of Python, version 2.3 (July
> 29th 2003).
>
> I build my widget in QT designer, I can create the corresponding python
> script but when I try to run the python script I get  a DLL load error:
>
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "C:\Documents and Settings\Andrea\Desktop\Adams\Pyqt\sdi
> editor\sdi_editor.py", line 5, in -toplevel-
>
>     from qt import *
>
>   File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\qt.py", line 17, in -toplevel-
>
>     import libsip
>
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
>
>
>
> Of course just invoking the python interpreter and trying to "import qt"
> cause the same error.
>
> Can anyone suggest a way to resolve this problem?
>
> Note that the only suggestion I could find on the Internet was to copy
> manually the libsip.dll to the C:\windows\system32 folder, but that did
> not work.

As Jim said, you need a version of PyQt that is compatible with your version 
of Qt, ie. you need the commercial version of PyQt.

Phil