Cannot import QtWebKitWidgets in PyQt5

Question

I've recently upgraded PyQt5 from 5.5.1 to 5.6.0 using the Windows 32-bit installer here: https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download5. I've also upgraded my python from 3.4 to 3.5.

When I run my old code (which used to work) with the latest version I get an exception:

    from PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets import *
ImportError: No module named 'PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets'

All of my QT calls in my python occur consecutively and are (and I know I shouldn't be importing * but that's beside the issue here I think):

        from PyQt5.QtCore import *
        from PyQt5.QtGui import *
        from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
        from PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets import *

So the QtCore, QtGui and QtWidgets imports are all OK.

Also, when I search the source for QtWebKitWidgets there appears several references to this module.

Finally my python path looks like:

C:\PYTHON35;C:\PYTHON35\DLLs;C:\PYTHON35\LIB;C:\PYTHON35\LIB\LIB-TK;

and environment path:

C:\Python35\Lib\site-packages\PyQt5;C:\Python35;C:\Python35\Lib;C:\Python35\Lib\site-packages;C:\Python35\Scripts ....

Answer 1

QtWebKit got deprecated upstream in Qt 5.5 and removed in 5.6.

You may want to switch to PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets.QWebEngineView.

For basic use of PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets.QWebView, it can simply be updated to use PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets.QWebEngineView in the source code, but there may be some differences in the new component which require further adjustments.

Answer 2

I was trying to run qutebrowser and it had the same error, the answer is simple, the packages changed. You have two solutions:

1)

pip install PyQtWebEngine

2)

pip install PyQt5==5.11.3

Hope this helps any future problems

Answer 3

In PyQt5 "QtWebKitWidgets" is Deprecated. I just replace this line

from PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets import QWebView, QWebPage
from PyQt5.QtWebKit import QWebSettings

With this code:

from PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets import QWebEngineView as QWebView,QWebEnginePage as QWebPage
from PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets import QWebEngineSettings as QWebSettings