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Allow PyQt5 versions < 5.11

See original GitHub issue

Thank you for your amazing work. I’m currently using a modified version of pytest-qt which allows usage with PyQt 5.9.2 So far I haven’t had any issues. Where does the restriction for 5.11 come from? Is it arbitrary because you didn’t test any lower version number with your package or is there an actual known problem with lower version numbers?

If it is arbitrary, I would like to help getting 5.9 “greenlighted”.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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The-Compilercommented, Dec 9, 2021

There are various reasons:

How to import the sip module changed (that one would be easy, sure)
The associated sip version introduced support for scoped enums, which would require various changes to support - I suppose you were running an older PyQt but using a newer sip or something (which is rather exotic)?
PyQt 5.11 isn’t installable from PyPI anymore, so we can’t really easily run automated tests for it - IMHO, supporting a version without CI is a no-no
Qt 5.9 was released in May 2017 and support ended in May 2020. I’m really not too keen in continuing to support an ancient Qt version >1.5 years beyond its official end of support.
Probably more reasons/incompatibilities I’m not considering right now

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nicoddemuscommented, Dec 9, 2021

Cool, thanks. You will need to use pytest-qt<4, since 4.0.0 introduced the breaking changes for PyQt 5.9. 👍

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