Why did PyQt stop working?

asked 2019-09-07 15:18:04 +0200

tsiksum
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Hello everybody,

I'm not sure whether this is a sailfish issue or a pyqt issue.

Years ago I installed pyqt-5.1.1-1.armv7hl.rpm from https://openrepos.net/content/sailfishlib/pyqt.
It worked fine until spring.
But then I had to learn that my application kalli-pyqt5.py did not launch anymore. When I try to start it I get:

[nemo@Sailfish Kal-pyqt5]$ ./kalli-pyqt5.py
sys.path:  ['/home/nemo/.bin/Kal-pyqt5', '/usr/lib/python37.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.7', '/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./kalli-pyqt5.py", line 14, in <module>
from PyQt5.QtCore import * SystemError: initialization of QtCore failed without raising an exception

As to sys.path:
/home/nemo/.bin/Kal-pyqt5 does not contain PyQt.
/usr/lib/python37.zip does not exist.
/usr/lib/python3.7 does not contain PyQt.
/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload contains a number of files named .cpython-37m-arm-linux-gnueabihf.so. /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages contains a directory named PyQt5 with a number of files named Qt.so.

I have no idea why it stopped working or how to fix this.
Is it because sailfish upgraded from Python 3.4 to Python 3.7 somewhen?
Is it because the file in */PyQt5 are *.so files instead of *.py?

Any idea?

TIA
tsiksum