[PyQt] TortoiseHG, newest PyQt4 and Sip error

[Sebastian Elsner]

Seems this issue has come up for several people in the meantime:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qbzr/+bug/711602
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25930983/qt-pyqt-and-sip-compatibility-issue-typeerror-sip-methoddescriptor-object

@Phil: Is there some way I can help solve this problem by providing more 
info?

On 07/16/2014 04:44 PM, Yuya Nishihara wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:07:03 +0200, Sebastian Elsner wrote:
>> I have just upgraded PyQt4, SIP and QScintilla and TortoiseHG to the
>> newest versions. But now Tortoise refuses to launch. See below:
>>
>>     #!python
>>       ** Mercurial version (3.0.2).  TortoiseHg version
>> (3.0.2+153-9ff2ef0f9295)
>>       ** Command:
>>       ** CWD: /home/sebels
>>       ** Encoding: UTF-8
>>       ** Extensions loaded:
>>       ** Python version: 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 22 2014, 09:42:36) [GCC
>> 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)]
>>       ** System: Linux STATION38 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu
>> Jun 19 21:14:45 UTC 2014 x86_64
>>       ** Qt-4.8.5 PyQt-4.11.1 QScintilla-2.8.3
>>       Traceback (most recent call last):
> [...]
>>           dir = os.path.dirname(unicode(s.fileName()))
>>       TypeError: 'sip.methoddescriptor' object is not callable
> There's another report from CentOS/RHEL user:
> https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/issue/3680/
>
> but I have no idea why unicode(QString()) raised TypeError.
>
> Regards,