[PyQt] PyQt5 support for QtWebEngine (for QML WebEngineView)?

[Phil Thompson]

On 9 Sep 2016, at 4:19 pm, Russell Warren <russ at perspexis.com> wrote:
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> I'm pretty confident that the answer to my question is that QtWebEngine (for qml support) is simply not in the PyQt wheel, even though QtWebEngineCore and QtWebEngineWidgets are included. Next step, I think, is to successfully build PyQt from scratch to see if it is there.
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> However, while searching for docs to say which specific wrappers/modules are included in the wheels (do these exist? I couldn't find it), I noticed that "QtWebEngine" is not included in the list of PyQt5 components...
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> http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/introduction.html#pyqt5-components
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> Does this mean there are still no wrappers for it?  Is there a fundamental reason for this?  There is a very specific callout for QtWebEngineWidgets indicating that there can be compiler issues on Windows, but no mention of QtWebEngine is made.
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> Also, assuming it isn't there, is there a list of modules like this that don't have PyQt wrappers available?

What do you actually want to use which is missing? (Given that, according to the docs, you don't need to call QtWebEngine.initialize()).

Phil