Can't start bootstrap.py with pyqt

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From contrebasse on 2014-07-02T02:28:25Z

Spyder Version: 2.3.0rc (3771: r404e2ec105b9 )
Python Version: 2.7.7
Qt Version : 4.8.6, PyQt4 (API v2) 4.11 on Linux
pyflakes >=0.5.0: 0.5.0 (OK)
pep8 >=0.6 : 1.4.6 (OK)
IPython >=0.13 : 2.1.0 (OK)
pygments >=1.6 : 1.6 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.2.2 (OK)
psutil >=0.3 : 2.1.1 (OK)
jedi >=0.8.0 : 0.8.0-final0 (OK)
matplotlib >=1.0: 1.3.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.0 : 0.7.5 (OK)
pylint >=0.25 : 1.2.1 (OK)

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Try to start spyder using python2 ./bootstrap.py --gui=pyqt 2. 3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I get the following error:

Executing Spyder from source checkout Revision 54e70aafa4dc :3784, Branch: default

1. Patched sys.path with /data/prog/spyderlib
   and /data/prog/spyderlib/external-py2
2. Skipping GUI toolkit detection
3. Imported Spyder 2.3.0rc
   [Python 2.7.7 64bits, Qt 4.8.6, PyQt4 (API v1) 4.11 on Linux]
4. Executing spyder.main()
   Bootstrap completed in 00:00:00.2514
   Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/data/prog/spyderlib/spyderlib/spyder.py", line 2333, in main
   mainwindow = run_spyder(app, options, args)
   File "/data/prog/spyderlib/spyderlib/spyder.py", line 2221, in run_spyder
   main.setup()
   File "/data/prog/spyderlib/spyderlib/spyder.py", line 785, in setup
   from spyderlib.plugins.inspector import ObjectInspector
   File "/data/prog/spyderlib/spyderlib/plugins/inspector.py", line 40, in
   from spyderlib.widgets.ipython import IPythonControlWidget
   File "/data/prog/spyderlib/spyderlib/widgets/ipython.py", line 29, in
   from IPython.frontend.qt.console.rich_ipython_widget import RichIPythonWidget
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/qt/console/rich_ipython_widget.py", line 15, in
   from IPython.external.qt import QtCore, QtGui
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/external/qt.py", line 23, in
   QtCore, QtGui, QtSvg, QT_API = load_qt(api_opts)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/external/qt_loaders.py", line 258, in load_qt
   api_options))
   ImportError:
   Could not load requested Qt binding. Please ensure that
   PyQt4 >= 4.7 or PySide >= 1.0.3 is available,
   and only one is imported per session.

Currently-imported Qt library:   'pyqtv1'
PyQt4 installed:                 True
PySide >= 1.0.3 installed:       True
Tried to load:                   ['pyqt']

Please provide any additional information below

.
It works fine with pyside or python3.
I tried to delete ~/.spyder2 but I got the same error.
The command ipython2 qtconsole works (I don't know if it uses pyside or pyqt)
Also, I just updated the default branch, bitbucket said I was 27 commits behind before sync.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=1879

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From ccordoba12 on 2014-07-02T06:40:57Z

Labels: MS-v2.3

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From ccordoba12 on 2014-07-02T07:59:31Z

This issue was closed by revision c2a549e37fb9 .

Status: Fixed

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From techtonik@gmail.com on 2014-07-02T08:38:25Z

I'd reopen this until this hack is replaced with proper fix. See discussion at https://bitbucket.org/spyder-ide/spyderlib/commits/226c8cc50cb