[PyQt] ANN: PyQt v5.5.1 Released

[Phil Thompson]

On 25 Oct 2015, at 8:17 p.m., Erik Hvatum <ice.rikh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 2:43 PM, V. Armando Sole <sole at esrf.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I cannot compile new PyQt5 with current sip version under python 3.5 and VS2015.
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> I have installed sip 4.17 but it keeps saying I need 4.16.6 or later (see attached picture).
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> Did I miss anything?
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> Armando
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> Try running
> python -c "import sip; print(sip.SIP_VERSION_STR); print(sip.__file__)"
> in the command line.  Perhaps Python is finding an older version of SIP in your home directory or some such thing.

It's the version of sip.exe that matters, not the version of the sip module. Run sip -V to see what version is being used.

Phil