Re: Private sip modules conflict with public sip module
Scott Talbert <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 18 Aug 2019, Phil Thompson wrote: >> See the below example: >> >> $ python3 >> Python 3.7.4 (default, Jul 9 2019, 16:32:37) >> [GCC 9.1.1 20190503 (Red Hat 9.1.1-1)] on linux >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>>> import PyQt5.sip >>>>> import sip >>>>> sip >> <module 'PyQt5.sip' from >> '/usr/lib64/python3.7/site-packages/PyQt5/sip.so'> >>>>> >> >> Basically, if you import a private sip module and then import the >> public one, it doesn't work. It seems to be due to this: >> >> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/hg/sip/file/4.19-maint/siplib/siplib.c#l1293 > > Why would you want to do that? I don't particularly *want* to do that, but it happens in the wild with applications. For example: fsleyes imports matplotlib matplotlib imports PyQt as part of its backend detection fsleyes imports wxpython wxpython imports sip -> fail Scott _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt