How to install PyQt on Mac OS X 10.6

Question

I\'m quite new to Mac OS X. when i tried to install PyQt on Mac Os X after installing python 3.1, Qt 4.6.2 and SIP 4.10.1 i encounter the following error when i execute $pyt

Answer 1

I had the same problem as you had. The solution is rather simple.

Because of a bug in configure.py of PyQt4, you are not supposed to have a space character in your PyQt4 source directory path. The error is due to a wrong syntax when configure.py invokes sip executable on an input path with spaces.

Answer 2

You can also use PyQtX, which is a binary distribution of PyQt for OS X and also includes Qt libraries. You just need Python for it.

Answer 3

Since you are using PyQt v4.7 you need to install Qt v4.7 too, go ahead and install Qt v4.7.1 first.

Answer 4

Try using brew:

brew install pyqt

It is more highly recommended than macports now.

Answer 5

QT and PyQT also available to install on OSX using Homebrew

Answer 6

I had this problem, and indeed my PyQt source folder was in a directory which had a space character somewhere in the path.

I was able to make this work by moving the PyQt source folder to the root, and running python configure.py from there.