[PyQt] TortoiseHG, newest PyQt4 and Sip error

[Phil Thompson]

On 09/10/2014 9:02 am, Sebastian Elsner wrote:
> 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?

 From memory I've only ever seen this caused by not building everything 
with the same version of SIP and the same .sip files.

Phil

> 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,
> 
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