Help on installing PyQt on MacOSX 10.3 needed

[Phil Thompson]

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to run a program that is written in PyQt on my mac, and went
> over to Riverbank to get PyQ 3.13 and SIP 4.1.1 sources.
>
> I followed the installation guide except for the compiling python as
> Macosx already has python.
>
> I had no problem with compiling SIP and also no problem with compiling
> PyQt nor did I have any error message during make install.
>
> Now the last step in the install documentation says that I have to
> edit several files regarding python itself, and then recompile it.
> This is where I got stuck. The mac native python cannot find the
> package qt with a import qt command on the commandline, and I have no
> experience whatsoever with python.
>
> Maybe somebody has been successful installing PyQt with the native
> python in macosx 10.3 and can help me?

Where does it say that you need to re-compile Python? You don't need to
touch Python - unless you are deploying applications and want to build a
version of Python with PyQt as builtin modules.

Phil