Question

PyQt has two different API’s: the old and the new.
By default you get the old API with Python 2 and the new API with Python 3.
Is it possible to enable the new PyQt API with Python 2? How?

Answer 1

Perhaps you could try using sip.setapi. A simple example from the docs:

import sip
sip.setapi('QString', 2)

And a list of the supported APIs:

QDate v1, v2
QDateTime v1, v2
QString v1, v2
QTextStream v1, v2
QTime v1, v2
QUrl v1, v2
QVariant v1, v2