[PyQt] Which version of Python does dip REALLY work with?

[Phil Thompson]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:13:06 +1000, Peter Milliken
<peter.milliken at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have Mark Summerfield's book on Rapid gui development with Python and
Qt
> and followed the link in Appendix A and found "dip".
> 
> I have Python 2.6.2. The web-site states it works with 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x,
I
> realise it is 0.1 and is bound to have problems, but...
> 
> First problem after installation was that the "shebang" doesn't work
with
> cygwin bash and Windows XP i.e. when you just run dip-builder it returns
a
> complaint of "no such file" for /c/Python26/Scripts/dip-builder - Python
> doesn't understand bash paths.
> 
> Next problem (after explicitly running dip-builder in the Scripts
> directory)
> was the final line:
> 
> wres12386#1(/c/Python26/Scripts)$ python dip-builder
>   File "dip-builder", line 93
>     sys.exit(app.exec())
>                     ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> [exited with 1]
> 
> A quick look at the Qt documentation for QApplication shows it should be
> app.exec_()
> 
> So that script can't work with ANY version of Python :-)
> 
> Fixed that, then it complained with:
> 
> wres12386#1(/c/Python26/Scripts)$ python dip-builder
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "dip-builder", line 28, in <module>
>     from dip.plugins import PluginManager
>   File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\dip\plugins\__init__.py", line 21,
in
> <module>
>     from .i_extension_point import IExtensionPoint
>   File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\dip\plugins\i_extension_point.py",
> line 16, in <module>
>     from dip.model import Interface, List, Str
>   File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\dip\model\__init__.py", line 45,
in
> <module>
>     from .adapt import adapt
>   File "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\dip\model\adapt.py", line 21
>     def adapt(*adapted, to):
>                          ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> [exited with 1]
> 
> Not sure what this error is - haven't investigated it, thought it might
be
> advisable to re-check the versions of Python it is supposed to work
with. I
> realise I don't have the latest 2.6.x, but I thought before I go to a
lot
> of
> trouble downloading other versions of Python (I do not want to go to 3.x
-
> I
> need to stay with 2.x), I thought I would ask the question:
> 
> Exactly what version of Python has anybody ACTUALLY got the dip
> distribution
> working with? :-)
> 
> In the meantime, I think I'll just go back to reading the book...

So what version of dip are you using?

dip v0.1 is Python v3 only. For earlier versions of Python you need a
current snapshot. Hint: pick the one with "py2" in the package name.

Phil