Following up, after a bit of research...
It seems it's alla about QString (which is gone in api 2)
it is suggested to convert the QString into a unicode python2 string
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PortingPythonToPy3k/PyQt4
Do you think could be the way to go for the qt backend?
Cheers,
Michele.
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Michele Mattioni <matti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm trying to to use matplotlib in a Qt application which needs the
> sip API set to 2
>
> import sip
> sip.setapi('QString', 2)
>
> However if I do this I get this error
>
> ImportError: cannot import name QString
>
> I'm wondering if I'm the first to stumble upon this one, or this is a
> known solution.
>
> Below the whole Traceback.
>
> Thanks,
> Michele.
>
>
> In [3]: import sip
>
> In [4]: sip.setapi('QString', 2)
>
> In [5]: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ImportError Traceback (most recent call
> last)
>
> /home/mattions/Work/model/MSN/Neuronvisio/examples/<ipython console>
> in <module>()
>
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/pyplot.py in <module>()
> 93
> 94 from matplotlib.backends import pylab_setup
> ---> 95 new_figure_manager, draw_if_interactive, show = pylab_setup()
> 96
> 97 @docstring.copy_dedent(Artist.findobj)
>
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/backends/__init__.pyc in
> pylab_setup()
> 23 backend_name =
> 'matplotlib.backends.%s'%backend_name.lower()
> 24 backend_mod = __import__(backend_name,
> ---> 25 globals(),locals(),[backend_name])
> 26
> 27 # Things we pull in from all backends
>
>
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4agg.py in
> <module>()
> 10
> 11 from backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg
> ---> 12 from backend_qt4 import QtCore, QtGui, FigureManagerQT,
> FigureCanvasQT,\
> 13 show, draw_if_interactive, backend_version, \
> 14 NavigationToolbar2QT
>
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4.py in
> <module>()
> 14 from matplotlib.mathtext import MathTextParser
> 15 from matplotlib.widgets import SubplotTool
> ---> 16 import matplotlib.backends.qt4_editor.figureoptions as
> figureoptions
> 17
> 18 try:
>
>
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/backends/qt4_editor/figureoptions.py
> in <module>()
> 9 import os.path as osp
> 10
> ---> 11 import matplotlib.backends.qt4_editor.formlayout as formlayout
> 12 from PyQt4.QtGui import QIcon
> 13
>
>
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/backends/qt4_editor/formlayout.py
> in <module>()
> 57 QDateEdit, QDateTimeEdit, QFont,
> QFontComboBox,
> 58 QFontDatabase, QGridLayout)
> ---> 59 from PyQt4.QtCore import (Qt, SIGNAL, SLOT, QSize, QString,
> 60 pyqtSignature, pyqtProperty)
> 61 from datetime import date
>
> ImportError: cannot import name QString
>
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