[PyQt] ImportError: No module named 'PyQt5.sip'

[Patrick Stinson]

I’m in 16.06.

I know that a recent version of PyQt5 changed the assumed location of the sip module. I have another thread started about this but related to pyqtdeploy-sysroot. So this thread is hinting that that change also breaks the Ubuntu package? Or maybe that is the Ubuntu responsibility? At any rate, I don’t fully understand what is going on and what to do about it.

-Patrick

> On Oct 15, 2018, at 11:30 PM, Jay Kamat <jaygkamat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> I upgraded pyqt5 on my ubuntu box using the os package manager. Any one know a way to get around this?
> 
> Most likely this is a packaging error from wherever you got the package. Are
> you on ubuntu cosmic?
> 
> See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668014 for a similar bug report.