Re: Slightly OT - using PyUIC from Eclipse

[Steve Simmons]

On 30/04/2014 23:49, Fabio Zadrozny wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Steve Simmons <square.st...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm trying to set up a new dev environment using Windows 7; Eclipse (Kepler); Python 3.3; PyDev and PyQt 5 and I've hit an issue getting PyUIC to generate a python Qt class from within Eclipse. I'm using the following setup process (from Google Groups)  modified to match my PyQt5 configuration: 1. Click Run -> External Tools -> External Tools Configurations ... 2. In the resulting dialog, click 'New' icon in the top left 3. Under 'Name' put 'PyUIC' 4. Under 'Location' enter 'C:\Program Files\Python\2.5\Python.exe' or the path to your Python executable (probably C:\Python25\Python.exe) 5. Under 'Arguments' enter '"C:\Program Files\Python\2.5\Lib\site- packages\PyQt4\uic\pyuic.py"  "${resource_loc}"' substituting the path to your PyQt4 installation - be sure also to include the double quotes 6. Change to the 'Common' tab and check 'File' under 'Standard Input/ Output' and enter '${resource_loc}.py' 7. Change to the 'Build' tab and uncheck 'Build before launch' 8. Change to the 'Refresh' tab and check 'Refresh resources upon completion' 9. Click 'Apply' then 'Run' and I'm getting the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "D:\Development\Python33\Lib\site-packages\PyQt5\uic\pyuic.py", line 28, in <module>     from .driver import Driver SystemError: Parent module '' not loaded, cannot perform relative import I tried this on Qt4 a week or so ago and it worked OK but Qt5 is giving me an error message, so I guess I've either mis-transcribed or there's a difference in the directory structure betwee PyQt4 & PyQt5. I'm more interested to learn how to read the traceback (insightfully) and track it to the source of the problem, although it would be good to have it working too!! Steve Simmons PS Also posted to PyQT list. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list The problem is that a main module cannot perform relative imports on Python. To overcome that limitation, Python created a workaround to execute a module with: python -m 'module.name' So, If you execute Python as: python -m PyQt5.uic.pyuic (instead of "python C:\Program Files\Python\2.5\Lib\site-packages\PyQt5\uic\pyuic.py") it should work. If you want, you can read an answer on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14132789/python-relative-imports-for-the-billionth-time for more details on why it doesn't work and the other way does... Cheers, Fabio Thanks Fabio, just what I needed. I've started to read the SO posts and relevant PEP but my brain is fried (it is 01:45 here) so I'll have a better read in the morning and 'play' with some modules so that I properly understand what's going on. Regards Steve

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