Installation

To install PyQt5 on your system you will need.

1. Python

Download

You can either download a zip or clone the repository.

The clone the repository

To clone, ensure you have Git available on your system.

$ git clone https://github.com/pyqt/python-qt5.git

To download zip

1. Download archive
2. Unpack
3. Rename from python-qt5-master to python-qt5

Install

Next we need to integrate the installation with your current installation of Python.

$ cd c:\path\to\python-qt5
$ python -c "import util;util.createqtconf()"

Install globally

From here, to use PyQt5 you will need to either append the \python-qt5 directory to your PYTHONPATH or install it globally like this.

$ python setup.py install

Test

$ set PYTHONPATH=c:\github\python-qt5  # Only if you cloned
$ python
>>> import sys
>>> from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
>>> app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
>>> button = QtWidgets.QPushButton("Hello")
>>> button.setFixedSize(400, 400)
>>> button.show()
>>> app.exec_()

Bugs

Python Qt5 is fully encapsulated and requires no further tweaking. If this isn't true for you, that is a bug and you may submit an issue or pull-request with a fix.