[PyQt] PyQt4 installed into different dir than sip and not importable on MacOSX

[Phil Thompson]

On 21/03/2015 8:29 am, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Phil Thompson 
> <phil at 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.

Phil