PyQt5 cannot import name 'QApplication'

Question

I am trying convert my code from PyQt4 to PyQt5 but I am getting errors.

from PyQt5.QtGui import QApplication, QPixmap
desktop = QApplication.desktop()
QPixmap.grabWindow(desktop.screen().winId()).save("screen.png", "PNG")


3.4.3 (v3.4.3:9b73f1c3e601, Feb 24 2015, 22:44:40) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python34\Projects\name.py", line 7, in <module>
    from PyQt5.QtGui import QApplication, QPixmap
ImportError: cannot import name 'QApplication'

Going over http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/pyqt4_differences.html might help... — sebastian, Mar 25 '15 at 15:39

styvane · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-25T16:12:54.533

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QApplication is located in PyQt5.QtWidgets module. So your import statement should be:

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication

edited Mar 25 '15 at 16:12

answered Mar 25 '15 at 15:36

styvane

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azalea · Answer 2 · 2019-05-22T17:21:42.483

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QApplication is in PyQt5.QtWidgets.

So it should be

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication

edited May 22 '19 at 17:21

answered Mar 25 '15 at 15:35

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Upvoting not because it solved my problem, but because a pretty much identical and later answer got upvotes. – Michael Scheper Nov 13 '15 at 05:45

PyQt5 cannot import name 'QApplication'

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