If you install packages that are prebuilt, like the PyQtX, then they will go to a specific site-packages location assumed to be the right one. When you build from source, you are building against your specific python which will install them to the same site-packages location.
This command should be able to tell you where PyQt4 was installed: mdfind -name "PyQt4" | grep "site-packages" I am guessing it probably installed it to the standard system python location: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages And possibly installed pyuic4 and pyrcc4 in: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin If the site-packages location is not the same as /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages , then you will need to either copy (or symlink) it over to your proper site-packages, or, add that site-packages location to your PYTHONPATH, from your ~/.profile For instance, on my system I installed PyQt4 through homebrew, so mine lives here: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyQt4 I have an entry like this in my ~/.profile export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:55 PM, m li <[email protected]> wrote: > As written above. > when I run ipython on my mac(lion) shell like down below > "ipython --gui=qt" > it returned > two errors > 1.TerminalIPythonApp] GUI event loop or pylab initialization failed > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ImportError Traceback (most recent call last) > /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ipython-0.13.2-py2.7.egg/IPython/lib/inputhook.pyc > in enable_gui(gui, app) > > 2. 63 # import PyQt4 unconfigured > > ImportError: Cannot import PySide or PyQt4 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
