A more specific query ...

[Gib Bogle]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:00:32 +1300, Gib Bogle
> <g.bogle at auckland.no.spam.ac.nz> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
> 
>> The PyQt4 problem results from having copies of the Qt DLLs in directories that 
>> are in the PATH, as Doug Bell discovered.  In my case I have two programs that 
>> use Qt, AMD CodeAnalyst and Matlab.  If I rename BOTH these directories I can 
>> import the PyQt4 modules.
>>
> 	And where are those PATH entries relative to the Python ones? You
> may have to add the Python location to PATH /before/ the AMD and Matlab
> entries. {I routinely -- once a year or so -- copy the PATH environment
> variable to an editor, and reorder it so that the stuff I use most
> occurs earlier in the list}

Well diagnosed!  The others were all system environment variables, while the 
PyQt4 PATH is mine, and therefore it was placed at the end.  I've taken the AMD 
and Matlab PATH entries out of the system list and put them after PyQt4 in my 
PATH.  Now peace and harmony are restored to my Python world.

Thanks
Gib