[QGIS-Developer] [solved] weird RuntimeError: qgis._gui cannot import type '����' from PytQT5.QtCore"

[matteo]

Hi Evan,

thanks, it works!

Cheers

Matteo

On 1/30/23 15:45, Even Rouault via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just to avoid other people losing a couple hours like me... If you 
> update to latest master on Debian/Ubuntu, and after rebuild, you get a 
> cryptic error like the following when importing qgis_gui:
> 
> # PYTHONPATH=output/python QGIS_PREFIX_PATH=output python3 -c "from 
> qgis._gui import *"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> RuntimeError: qgis._gui cannot import type '����' from PyQt5.QtCore
> 
> Then the fix is to install python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia. Cf 
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/324dac16696bff43d637920733eb5ee4cb7b3ddf
> 
> Thanks to Alessandro for hinting me on the right direction. I'd wish 
> PyQt would output a better error message...
> 
> Even
>