[PyQt] ANN: PyQt v4.10.1 Released

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Tue Apr 23 22:18:34 BST 2013


On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:53:58 +0200, Detlev Offenbach
<detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
> Hello Phil,
> 
> please disregard the first part of the message. Doing some more 
> investigations showed, that Windwos tricked me. Sorry for the noise.
> 
> Meanwhile I found a new issue. Calling e.g. qhelpgenerator as delivered 
> with the lates PyQt4 with Qt5 installer gives this error message:
> 
> Failed to load platform plugin "minimal". Available platforms are:
windows.
> 
> In deed, the platforms plugin directory only contains qwindows.dll. How
> can 
> I overcome this issue?

You'd have to copy it in from the Qt installer.

> Yet another observation. Entering the following in a Python 3.3 shell
> gives 
> a wrong output.
> 
>>>> from PyQt4.QtCore import QLibraryInfo
>>>> QLibraryInfo.location(QLibraryInfo.BinariesPath)
> 'C:/Qt/5.0.2/bin'
>>>>
> 
> I would have expected something like "C:\Python33\Lib\site-
> packages\PyQt4", because that is where the executable reside when 
> installed via the installer. How can I overcome this issue?

Sounds like a problem with qt.conf. 32 bit or 64 bit installer?

Phil


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