[PyQt] ANN: PyQt v5.9.1 and SIP v4.19.4 Released

[Phil Thompson]

On 5 Nov 2017, at 9:44 pm, Damon Lynch <damonlynch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 6:11 AM, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> PyQt v5.9.1 has been released (along with corresponsing releases of PyQt3D, PyQtChart, PyQtDataVisualization and PyQtPurchasing). These add support for Qt v5.9.2.
> 
> The Linux wheel for PyQt has yet to be uploaded to PyPI as it seems to have hit a limit on the size of a wheel. I'm trying to get this resolved.
> 
> SIP v4.19.4 has also been released. This includes the ability to add enable (at runtime) strict overflow checking when converting from Python integers.
> 
> 
> With SIP v4.19.4 and PyQt 5.9 on Linux,  code like this breaks:
> 
> buttonBox = QDialogButtonBox(
>     QDialogButtonBox.Cancel | QDialogButtonBox.Ok | QDialogButtonBox.Help
> )
> self.helpButton = buttonBox.button(QDialogButtonBox.Help)  # type: QPushButton
> 
> As far as I can tell, that code is correct. Unfortunately with sip==4.19.4, self.helpButton is assigned the value None, instead of the QPushButton. Moreover, the 
> QPushButtons do not appear to the user, so it seems they're never actually created when the QDialogButtonBox is instantiated. 
> 
> The problem is that when you install PyQt5.9 from PyPi, by default it installs SIP 4.19.4, not SIP 4.19.3. When SIP is downgraded to 4.19.3, the code works as expected.
> 
> Unfortunately in the requirements.txt for my application, a specific sip version is not specified. So currently I'm getting bug reports from unhappy users reporting broken code.
> Phil, do you have an ETA for PyQT 5.9.1 for Linux on Pypi? Until it does show up, is it possible to tell Pypi to install sip 4.19.3 when installing PyQt5.9?

It's a regression that affects all platforms. SIP v4.19.5 has been released.

I don't have an ETA for the Linux wheel as it is completely out of my control and I'm getting no response from the relevant person.

Thanks,
Phil