ImportError: No module named 'PyQt5.sip'

[Patrick Stinson]

Also, I just tried:

	pip install .

For sip-5.2.0 with Python-3.7.7 and it didn’t install the sip module in site-packages or site-packages/PyQt5.

Not sure what to do there….

> On Apr 28, 2020, at 5:51 AM, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I suppose this is more of a pip question at this point, but do you know how to get:
> 
>   pip install .
> 
> or
> 
>   pip install PyQt5_sip-12.7.2.tar.gz
> 
> to build with debugging symbols? At first glance I don’t see anything like that in the pip docs.
> 
>> On Apr 28, 2020, at 5:48 AM, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Oh wow, it looks like I am also out of touch with pip and its capabilities.
>> 
>> “pip install .” Worked for me using sip-5.2.0.tar.gz.
>> 
>> Sounds like your idea to detect setup.py is a good one, however.
>> 
>>> On Apr 28, 2020, at 5:09 AM, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Aah - I never build in that particular way, I always use pip to build the PyQt5.sip module.
>>> 
>>> To build from an unpacked source package...
>>> 
>>>  pip install .
>>> 
>>> To build from a local source package...
>>> 
>>>  pip install PyQt5_sip-12.7.2.tar.gz
>>> 
>>> To build from source from PyPI...
>>> 
>>>  pip install --no-binary :all: PyQt5-sip
>>> 
>>> I'll try and detect if 'python setup.py' is being used and either fix it or fail with an error message.
>>> 
>>> Phil
>>> 
>>> On 28/04/2020 13:39, Patrick Stinson wrote:
>>>> Phil,
>>>> It seems to me that this is likely documented somewhere since it is a
>>>> latest-version source build with generic options?
>>>> -Patrick
>>>>> On Apr 27, 2020, at 11:26 PM, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Now I am asking the same question as the OP. I built Python-3.8.4, sip-5.2.0, and PyQt5-5.14.2 on macOS and got the same error.
>>>>> I built sip with “python setup.py install”
>>>>> turin:vendor patrick$ python -c "import PyQt5.QtGui"
>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>>>>> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5.sip'
>>>>> -Patrick
>>>>>> On Apr 27, 2020, at 1:33 PM, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 27/04/2020 22:19, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
>>>>>>> Great Phil, that's where I pulled sources for both of them.
>>>>>>> I have built and packaged PyQt5-sip and PyQt5 from those sources,
>>>>>>> after building and packaging sip5 and PyQt-builder.
>>>>>>> Maybe there's something wrong in what I'm delivering to the system
>>>>>>> with PyQt5-sip?
>>>>>>> Here's a brief of the files delivered by my package, as in the package
>>>>>>> definition file (pkg, solaris).
>>>>>>> I derived this from the prototype area generated by the build/install
>>>>>>> on the prototype install root.
>>>>>>> I bet something is wrong with the sip.cpython-35m.so file...I still
>>>>>>> don't understand how these cpython so files are looked up, but that is
>>>>>>> what the build system created in the prototype area.
>>>>>>> dir path=usr
>>>>>>> dir path=usr/lib
>>>>>>> dir path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)
>>>>>>> dir path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages
>>>>>>> dir path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5
>>>>>>> dir
>>>>>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5_sip-12.7.2-py$(PYVER).egg-info
>>>>>>> file usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5/sip.cpython-35m.so
>>>>>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5/sip.cpython-35m.so
>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5_sip-12.7.2-py$(PYVER).egg-info/PKG-INFO
>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5_sip-12.7.2-py$(PYVER).egg-info/SOURCES.txt
>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5_sip-12.7.2-py$(PYVER).egg-info/dependency_links.txt
>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5_sip-12.7.2-py$(PYVER).egg-info/top_level.txt
>>>>>> I would expect to see .dist-info rather than .egg-info. Maybe your setuptools is too old.
>>>>>> Phil
>>> 
>> 
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