Finding PyQT5 compatible with python 2.7, MySQL and mac OS

Question

I have installed pyqt5 using home-brew on the terminal but when I run a python 2.7 idle file and import "PyQt5" it says "ImportError: No module named PyQt5"

Have I installed it correctly, how would I check this?

Answer 1

From reading through the documentation ( PyQt5 docs ) it seems, that PyQt5 is only available for Python 3 and not Python 2.

Do you have Python 3 installed on your Mac? If so, then try to import it using Python 3. If you have Python 3 not installed, you can also do it via home-brew using:

brew install python3

If you need to use Python 2.7, then you should consider using PyQt4 which seems to be compatible (haven't tested, just looked up the docs).