Installing Qt5 and PyQt5 for Python 2.7

Question

I am new to Stack Overflow and Python.

I am developing for Visual Effects, which means that I am (and will continue) using Python 2.7. I'm a bit lost and looking for clear instructions on how to install pyqt5 . I know this seems pretty elementary, so I appreciate everyone's patience.

There is a lot of information on this subject like, you need QT5 or Scintilla ? A lot of the instructions are fragmented and don't have all of the information. I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction with clear and concise instructions.

For example:

1. Install Python 2.7
2. Install x
3. ...
4. ...
5. ...

I'm willing to figure it out myself, but I feel the information I have has a lot of holes and could use some help/direction.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Maybe this link can help. It is for installing PyQt5 on Python 3, but I think it will be the same process for Python 2.

Update: Since you didn't say any specific OS, I will assume you're using Windows. For Windows, there is already Python distribution which is ready to use such as WinPython . This is what I've done on my machine:

1. Download appropriate WinPython version for your machine,
2. Download appropriate PyQt5 wheels version for your machine,
3. Install WinPython,
4. Extract the downloaded PyQt5 wheels,
5. Copy pyqt5-tools folder found inside where you extracted PyQt5 wheels
6. Paste it to Where_You_Installed_WinPython\\Lib\\site-packages.

You can start designing your GUI with double-clicking Qt Designer.exe . After you finished designing your GUI, you can convert the GUI file (with *.ui extension) to *.py with pyuic5 -x yourgui.ui -o yourgui.py command.

python and pyuic5 command on your command prompt can only be executed in your WinPython installation folder. inside your WinPython installation folder.