[Qgis-user] installing 1.7 standalone Win XP: Couldn't load PyQGIS., Python support will be disabled.

[Milo van der Linden]

Janneke,

It probably ships with the correct python sip, but perhaps it is not
on your path or overruled by an older version of sip. Have you tried
the osgeo4w installer, or did you install from the qGIS standalone
installer? Perhaps the osgeo4w installation process can help as it
will also install dependencies on the go

http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/

2011/6/23 Janneke Qgis <janneke.qgis at gmail.com>:
> Thanks, Milo, I'll give it a try. I need the python bindings. It looks a bit
> daunting though, last time I tried building things I got completely stuck.
>
> I'm a bit surprised that the standalone installer doesn't come with the
> corresponding python sip - I hoped it would've worked out of the box. Is it
> supposed to?
>
> greetings,
> Janneke
>
> On 23/06/2011 11:02, Milo van der Linden wrote:
>>
>> Hello Janneke,
>>
>> I think I remember that qGIS can run without pyQGIS, so you should be
>> good on "regular" functionality with qGIS.
>>
>> However, for python support you need a more recent version of python
>> sip. Instructions for installing that can be found here:
>> http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/sip4/installation.html
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Milo van der Linden
>>
>>
>> 2011/6/23 Janneke Qgis<janneke.qgis at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I've just tried installing the standalone version of Qgis 1.7 on XP, and
>>> after starting the program I get the following error message:
>>> --------------------------
>>> Couldn't load PyQGIS.
>>> Python support will be disabled.
>>>
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "", line 1, in
>>> RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v5.0 but the qgis.core
>>> module requires API v8.1
>>>
>>>
>>> Python version:
>>> 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
>>>
>>> QGIS version:
>>> 1.7.0-Wroclaw 'Wroclaw', 63ecdd7
>>>
>>> Python path:
>>> ['C:/PROGRA~1/QUANTU~2/apps/qgis/./python', 'C:/Documents and
>>> Settings/Admin/.qgis/python', 'C:/Documents and
>>> Settings/Admin/.qgis/python/plugins',
>>> 'C:/PROGRA~1/QUANTU~2/apps/qgis/./python/plugins', 'C:\\Program
>>> Files\\ArcGIS\\bin', 'C:\\Qgis\\apps\\qgis\\python',
>>> 'C:\\Qgis\\apps\\Python25\\Lib\\site-packages',
>>> 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python25.zip',
>>> 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\DLLs',
>>> 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib',
>>> 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\plat-win',
>>> 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\lib-tk',
>>> 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\qgis\\bin',
>>> 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25',
>>> 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages',
>>> 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\win32',
>>> 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib',
>>> 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin',
>>>
>>> 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode']
>>> ---------------------------
>>>
>>> Is there anything else I should install or set? I've also sent it to the
>>> developer list yesterday.
>>>
>>> greetings,
>>> Janneke
>>>
>>>
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