Error: sipbuild.api' has no attribute 'prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel'

[Benoit Pierre]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 2:40 PM Philippe Fremy <phil at freehackers.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As part of a tox script, I am getting the below error while trying to
> install PyQt5.15.4 . What I don't understand is why pip does not pick
> the avilable wheel and uses instead the source package.
>

This might be because your version of pip is too old.


> The error then is rather cryptic. I suppose it is linked with trying to
> build the wheel from source ?
>

This is a red herring, have you checked the rest of the output?  (Like the
inner exception)

Cheers,

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