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

[Benoit Pierre]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 2:55 PM Philippe Fremy <phil at freehackers.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for helping me. The version of pip is upgraded to the latest
> before running the script, so this is not the source of the error.
>
> Here is the rest of the inner exception. I did not notice it at first
> but it seems to fail because it can not find qmake. Which is coherent.
> But it does not explain why the source package was picked up.
>

You're asking for version 5.15.4, but you're using Python 3.10: there's no
compatible wheel for that version of Python (see
https://pypi.org/project/PyQt5/5.15.4/#files). Try 5.15.5 or later.

Cheers

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