Help on installing PyQt on MacOSX 10.3 needed

[Kevin Walzer]

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Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote:

| Kevin Walzer wrote:
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|> Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote:
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|> | you are perfectly right. I went back to the documentation and paid a
|> bit
|> | more attention and with your information in mind, I now see that it is
|> | talking about a selfcontained python with pyqt. I guess that I want to
|> | use the qt bindings *dynamically*. That means that I have to find a way
|> | to tell Python where to find the pyqt that I installed.
|> |
|> | In tcl I would either have installed into a directory in auto_path or I
|> | would have extended auto_path. How is this done in Python?
|> |
|>
|> PyQt is installed in the site-packages directory on OS X--there's
|> nothing special you need to do, it "just works" and loads up fine.
|
|
| Well, then I must have done something wrong since I get the error
| message that there is no module called qt available.
|
| On the command line of Python I did import sys and print sys.path to get
| the built-in search path. I checked the location where make install put
| the pyqt build vs the list of directories in sys.path and found that
| Python *should* be able to find pyqt. (There is a README file in that
| directory saying that this is the place to put third-party files, but I
| don't know if I have to do anything special in that sites.py which is
| mentioned in that README file)
|
| When I do import qt on the Python commandline, which file(s) in the
| third-party directory will be searched for first? If I knew that I could
| check if make install was successful generating all needed files.
|

How are you launching your program? Are you using pythonw instead of
Python? That's how to launch Python GUI programs on Mac OS X.

Do you have the MacPython add-ons installed? These make double-clicking
on Python apps the easiest way to launch them. See
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/.

Also, my installer package is now live. See
http://www.wordtech-software.com/pyqt-mac.html. It installs most stuff
directly, then you just need to run sudo make install in the directories
for PyQt and Sip. It's a straightforward build, nothing fancy, and works
fine for me. Perhaps you should give that a try and see if you find it
helpful.

When I try to assemble a standalone verison of a PyQt app (using py2app,
like py2exe but on the Mac, with the Qt libraries), I do have problems
seeing the PyQt path--I get some of the same error messages that you are
seeing. I haven't figured out how to debug those yet. However, when just
running the script, or doing an applet bundle
(http://www.wordtech-software.com/python-applet-tutorial.html), things
run fine. I've bundled up Eric3 (released with my PyQt distro) and Kodos
(just on my own box) this way, and they work fine.

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Kevin Walzer, PhD
WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X
http://www.wordtech-software.com
http://www.smallbizmac.com
http://www.kevin-walzer.com
mailto:sw at wordtech-software.com
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