On 21/03/2015 8:29 am, Andreas Pakulat wrote:

Hi Phil,

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Phil Thompson <phil@riverbankcomputing.com

wrote:

On 20/03/2015 8:44 pm, Andreas Pakulat wrote:

Hi,

just installed the latest PyQt4 release (4.11.3) on MacOSX and could not
impot PyQt4 afterwards in python. Turns out it decided to place itself
into
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/
lib/python2.7/site-packages,
however that directory is not in sys.path after starting Python.

sip on the other hand (installed just before, version is 4.16.6) put
itself
into /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages and that is part of sys.path.

I guess this isn't intended? Where does PyQt gather the default
installation directory from?

Andreas

PS: Passing -d /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages worked fine of course.

The /System/... location is for python that ships with OS X. The
/Library/... location is for the python from python.org.

Are you sure you used the same python throughout?

Yes very sure since I did not have a python from python.org when I tried
first time. Explicitly starting python through
/System/Library/FrameWorks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python and
fetching sys.path still shows no site-packages under the /System/
hierarchy, but the one from /Library.

I've meanwhile installed pip using the System python and that was placed in
/Library as well.

However I do notice now that my /usr/bin/python is slightly larger than the
python2.7 binary. No idea wether thats normal or not (a hunch tells me this
is because that one reads out some OSX config to determine which Python I
want as default), but at least the dates of the two are matching (Sep 10th
2014)

All this is on a fresh OSX 10.10.

I assume you are using configure-ng.py.

Can you try with the current PyQt4 snapshot? I suspect that it has already been fixed.