PyQt5: The DLL load failed: the specified module could not be found

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Ahmad Taha picture Ahmad Taha · Apr 16, 2016 · Viewed 25.2k times · Source

I recently installed the PyQt5 module setup for 32-Bit computers on Windows. But when I am trying to run their examples none of then would run. All of the examples provided were having the similar type of error as in the following image. And when I tried to import PyQt5 in the Python shell it just imported correctly.

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I think this shows PyQt is installed successfully.

But when i try to run the examples it shows like:

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This is of one example and other examples have different 'no founds'

Facts - Running Windows 7, PyQt5 latest version, Python 3.5, Installed PyQt5 from original site with setup

I know there are several questions of such type, but none helped me because most of them were for Linux.

Answer

Ahmad Taha picture Ahmad Taha · Apr 17, 2016

I got the answer to my own question.

When I tried to install it by setup, it did not ran properly. Then I uninstalled the setup and also ran the code in command line pip uninstall pyqt5 and then reinstalled by pip pip install pyqt5.

Then it perfectly ran, but by installing with pip it doesn't provide any examples so for that install the setup in any other directory and copy the examples in the PyQt5 folder. Done!

I think there may be some bug in the setup.

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