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