[PyQt] Updated Windows GPL Installer Snapshot

Doug Bell dougb at bellz.org
Mon Oct 27 12:33:42 GMT 2008


Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:04:29 -0400, Doug Bell <dougb at bellz.org> wrote:
> > Phil Thompson wrote:
> >> I've updated the snapshot of the Windows installer for Python v2.6.
> >> 
> >> I'd be interested in feedback from those who have Python installed in a
> >> non-standard directory and/or non-administrator installs.
> > 
> > I have both, of course.  The installer ran without reporting any errors
> > or warnings, but PyQt isn't working:
> > 
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "treeline.py", line 33, in <module>
> >     from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
> > ImportError: DLL load failed: This application has failed to start
> > because the
> > application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may
> > fix this problem.
> 
> That's probably a PATH problem. How does the installer update your PATH?

It seems to have been added correctly.
"C:\Source\Python26\Lib\site-packages\PyQt" was added.

> If you fix your PATH manually (it needs to contain the directory with the
> Qt DLLs) does that work?

No.

I thought it might have been a conflict with my Python 2.5 installation,
but removing it and rebooting before installing the Python 2.6 version
didn't work either.

Doug.


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