[PyQt] Cannot import name QtGui

[Phil Thompson]

On Saturday 17 May 2008 15:05:07 Wade Spires wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to pyqt development.  I am trying to just run some of the
> example programs but am getting this import error:
>   PyQt-x11-gpl-4.4 # ./examples/tutorial/t1.py
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "./examples/tutorial/t1.py", line 6, in ?
>       from PyQt4 import QtGui
>   ImportError: cannot import name QtGui
>
> It looks like PyQt is installed:
>   PyQt-x11-gpl-4.4 # ls /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/PyQt4/
>   elementtree/   QtAssistant.so*  QtGui.so*      Qt.so*     QtTest.so*
>   __init__.py    QtCore.so*       QtNetwork.so*  QtSql.so*  QtXml.so*
>   pyqtconfig.py  QtDesigner.so*   QtOpenGL.so*   QtSvg.so*  uic/
>
> I tried setting my PYTHONPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
> variables to include /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages and
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/PyQt4/ respectively, but this did
> not solve the problem.  I can import PyQt4 itself, but it doesn't seem
> to have any modules available such as QtGui or QtCore.
>
> Any idea on what the problem is and how to solve it?  I apologize if
> such a simple problem has already been answered, but I didn't see it
> in the archive.

Permissions on the .so files?

Phil