[PyQt] ImportError using PyQt 5.14 on 32-bit Windows 7

[Phil Thompson]

On 02/03/2020 02:10, Ian Ottoway wrote:
> ​
> I'm getting the following error when trying to run my app on a 32-bit
> Windows 7 machine.
> 
>     from PyQt5.QtCore import QObject, QThread, pyqtSignal, pyqtSlot
> 
> ImportError: DLL load failed while importing QtCore: %1 is not a valid
> Win32 application.
> 
> I don't get this error when running on a 64-bit machine or if I
> downgrade to 5.13.  Normally, I would not consider it too much of an
> issue, but unfortunately I have one user who must have it running on
> this particular VM with no exceptions.
> 
> Is this a bug or is there something obvious that I'm missing?  I also
> get the same  error on a clean install of Python and just try to
> import any PyQt modules. 

It's a bug in pyqt-bundle (used internally to create the wheels).  The 
work around is to replace the Microsoft redistributables in the Qt\bin 
directory with the correct 32 bit versions.

Phil