ImportError: No module named QtWebKit

Question

I am on centos5. I installed python26 source with a make altinstall. Then I did a:

yum install qt4
yum install qt4-devel
yum install qt4-doc

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Answer 1

Double check to make sure that the Qt installation on your system has the Webkit library built.

Also, check to make sure that the QtWebKit.so exists in your python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4 directory.

Answer 2

apt install python-pyqt5.qtwebkit

Answer 3

install the qt44/qt44-x11/qt44-devel rpms from the atrpms el5 repo.

http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/qt4/

Answer 4

install the python module PySide, for example with:

pip install PySide

adn then change your imports from:

from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from PyQt4.QtWebKit import QWebPage

to:

from PySide.QtCore import *
from PySide.QtGui import *
from PySide.QtWebKit import QWebPage

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Alternatively you could use PySide just a s a fall back, so you can keep your code compatible with older systems too:

try:
    # NOTE We need to try importing QtWebKit first,
    #      because it is the most likely one to not be available,
    #      and all used QT classes need to come from the same module,
    #      to be compatible with each other.
    from PyQt4.QtWebKit import QWebPage
    from PyQt4.QtCore import *
    from PyQt4.QtGui import *
except ImportError:
    try:
        from PySide.QtGui import *
        from PySide.QtWebKit import QWebPage
    except ImportError:
        raise Exception("We require PyQt4 (with QtWebKit) or PySide")

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NOTE In the long run you should change to QT5 though, as the above are basically just workarounds.