PyQt/Mac_OS_X_Installation_Notes
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Mac OS X Installation Notes
This page contains a list of problems that people have encountered with Python and PyQt on Mac OS X.
Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
Once I rebuilt Python as a framework, along with rebuilding the various extensions, SIP, and PyQt, things worked fine.
Here are the commands to build Python as a framework from the source.
configure --enable-framework
make
sudo make frameworkinstall