Not able to run in Ubuntu 20.04 for error related to PyQt5

[adamerose]

Not able to run in Ubuntu 20.04 for error related to PyQt5

[adamerose]

I think you might have a corrupted PyQt5 installation. Can you try just running from PyQt5 import QtWebEngineWidgets? Should be the same error, so it's not related to PandasGUI specifically.

First thing I'd try to fix it is reinstall all PyQt packages:
pip uninstall -y PyQt5 PyQtWebEngine PyQt5-sip
pip install PyQt5 PyQtWebEngine PyQt5-sip

And if that doesn't work what's the output of pip freeze | grep -i pyqt?

[alessandrobessi]

@adamerose I have a similar problem related to PyQt5 (I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 too): when I import pandasgui I get ImportError: cannot import name 'sip' from 'PyQt5' (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PyQt5/__init__.py).

I tried to reinstall all PyQt packages, but it did not fix the problem. The output of pip freeze | grep -i pyqt is

PyQt5==5.14.1
PyQt5-sip==12.8.1
PyQtWebEngine==5.14.0

Thanks

[rohan-paul]

So I finally resolved in Ubuntu 20.04 it as below.

1. Main reason for my case was, I had broken pyqt5 - so I was not able to uninstall it and also NOT able to install a fresh version of PyQt5.

2. So finally had to manually delete PyQt5 + PyQt5-sip + PyQtWebEngine respective installed directories from the below three locations.

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages

/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages

/home/user_name/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages

3. Then install them back with pip install PyQt5 PyQtWebEngine PyQt5-sip

4. Now, check the installed versions of those packages by running pip freeze | grep -i pyqt

Now got the upgraded and correct package version as below

PyQt5==5.15.1
PyQt5-sip==12.8.1
PyQtWebEngine==5.15.1

5. Then also had to uninstall pandasgui by running pip uninstall pandasgui and then reinstall it again.

And now pandasgui is running fine.