Re: Private sip modules conflict with public sip module
Scott Talbert <[email protected]>
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On August 18, 2019 11:03:21 AM EDT, Phil Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: >On 18/08/2019 15:45, Scott Talbert wrote: >> 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 > >wxpython uses a private copy of the sip module so I don't see what is >importing a top-level sip module in that situation. I guess I left out an important detail. I patch wxPython to use the top-level sip module. Scott _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt