PyQt/Getting the version numbers of Qt, SIP and PyQt

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Getting the version numbers of Qt, SIP and PyQt

When you report a bug in PyQt you need to supply information about the configuration you are using, including the versions of the Qt library, SIP and PyQt modules. The following code should help.

   1 from PyQt4.QtCore import QT_VERSION_STR
   2 from PyQt4.pyqtconfig import Configuration
   3 
   4 print("Qt version:", QT_VERSION_STR)
   5 cfg = Configuration()
   6 print("SIP version:", cfg.sip_version_str)
   7 print("PyQt version:", cfg.pyqt_version_str)

Note that the pyqtconfig module is deprecated in PyQt 4.10. See http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/build_system.html for more details. If you are unable to import pyqtconfig (for example when using Riverbank’s packaged binaries) you can use the following:

   1 from PyQt4.QtCore import QT_VERSION_STR
   2 from PyQt4.Qt import PYQT_VERSION_STR
   3 from sip import SIP_VERSION_STR
   4 
   5 print("Qt version:", QT_VERSION_STR)
   6 print("SIP version:", SIP_VERSION_STR)
   7 print("PyQt version:", PYQT_VERSION_STR)

For PyQt5 getting the version is the same as in the last example above, just exchange PyQt4 for PyQt5