[Tutor] (SIP installation problem) Best way to install Python 3 onto Windows 10

[CMG Thrissur]

On Thursday 17 March 2016 12:40 AM, eryk sun wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> On 16/03/16 12:46, CMG Thrissur wrote:
>>
>>> I  tried to install activestate on win 10 but due to my ignorance or
>>> lack of knowlege i could n't get to install pyqt or sip. i tried it
>>> through pip.
> PyQt can't be easily installed from source using pip on Windows, and
> the project doesn't distribute pre-built wheel packages. You probably
> want an installer:
>
> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download
> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download5
>
> Riverbank doesn't have a Python 3.5 build yet, but there's an
> unofficial wheel available here:
>
> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyqt4
>
> Instructions to install wheels:
>
> https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide/#installing-from-wheels
>
>>> Even on basic installation i am getting it hard to find installation
>> of sip.
>>
>> I confess i'm not sure which SIP you mean? Google suggests a C/C++
>> bindings generator which might make sense if that's what PyQt uses,
>> although I'd expect all the bindings to be done for you.
>> Are you sure you really need it to use PyQt?
> The Qt bindings require the sip extension module at runtime, but
> that's included. If you need SIP for your own C++ project, you can
> learn more about it and download the source from Riverbank:
>
> https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/intro


Thank you for the link but on that page i see mention of SIP 
requirement, is that required for binary package also.

George