title: Installing PySide - Windows 8
body: <p>Following these instructions:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://qt-project.org/wiki/Setting_up_PySide" rel="nofollow">http://qt-project.org/wiki/Setting_up_PySide</a></p>
  
  <p>Successfully installed these programs:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>PySide-1.1.2.win-amd64-py2.7.exe - </li>
  <li>qt-win-opensource-4.8.4-vs2010.exe - Qt libraries 4.8.4 for Windows (VS 2010, 234 MB)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Tried the following and got an error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>PS C:\Windows\system32&gt; python
  Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:24:47) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  &gt;&gt;&gt; import PySide
  &gt;&gt;&gt; print(PySide.QtCore.__version__)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'QtCore'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am running windows 8 (64 bit). I ran the commands above from powershell as Administrator.</p>