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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Help. HOW TO guide for PyQt installation
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:55:22 -0400
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On 3/19/2013 8:12 PM, D. Xenakis wrote:
> Hi there, Im searching for an installation guide for PyQt toolkit. To
> be honest im very confused about what steps should i follow for a
> complete and clean installation. Should i better choose to install
> the 32bit or the 64bit windows version?

I am rather sure you should match your Python installation.

> If i installed this
> package on windows 8, should i have any problems? From what i read
> PyQt supports only xp and win7.

If the PyQT author(s) say nothing about Win8, I would presume that they 
have not tested it. Do you really want to be a guinea pig?

> I was thinking about installing the
> newer version of PyQt along with the QT5.

Does PyQT 'say' that it works with QT5? If so, try it.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy