Re: ImportError: No module named 'PyQt5.sip'

Phil,

It seems to me that this is likely documented somewhere since it is a latest-version source build with generic options?

-Patrick

> On Apr 27, 2020, at 11:26 PM, Patrick Stinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Now I am asking the same question as the OP. I built Python-3.8.4, sip-5.2.0, and PyQt5-5.14.2 on macOS and got the same error.
> 
> I built sip with “python setup.py install”
> 
> turin:vendor patrick$ python -c "import PyQt5.QtGui"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5.sip'
> 
> 
> -Patrick
> 
>> On Apr 27, 2020, at 1:33 PM, Phil Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 27/04/2020 22:19, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
>>> Great Phil, that's where I pulled sources for both of them.
>>> I have built and packaged PyQt5-sip and PyQt5 from those sources,
>>> after building and packaging sip5 and PyQt-builder.
>>>  
>>> Maybe there's something wrong in what I'm delivering to the system
>>> with PyQt5-sip?
>>> Here's a brief of the files delivered by my package, as in the package
>>> definition file (pkg, solaris).
>>> I derived this from the prototype area generated by the build/install
>>> on the prototype install root.
>>> I bet something is wrong with the sip.cpython-35m.so file...I still
>>> don't understand how these cpython so files are looked up, but that is
>>> what the build system created in the prototype area.
>>>  
>>> dir path=usr
>>> dir path=usr/lib
>>> dir path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)
>>> dir path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages
>>> dir path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5
>>> dir
>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5_sip-12.7.2-py$(PYVER).egg-info
>>> file usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5/sip.cpython-35m.so
>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5/sip.cpython-35m.so
>>> file
>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5_sip-12.7.2-py$(PYVER).egg-info/PKG-INFO
>>> file
>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5_sip-12.7.2-py$(PYVER).egg-info/SOURCES.txt
>>> file
>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5_sip-12.7.2-py$(PYVER).egg-info/dependency_links.txt
>>> file
>>> path=usr/lib/python$(PYVER)/vendor-packages/PyQt5_sip-12.7.2-py$(PYVER).egg-info/top_level.txt
>> 
>> I would expect to see .dist-info rather than .egg-info. Maybe your setuptools is too old.
>> 
>> Phil
>