# Pygplates dylib error

**URL:** https://discourse.gplates.org/t/pygplates-dylib-error/169
**Category:** Q&A
**Created:** [21 August 2020 14:27 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/pygplates-dylib-error/169 "2020-08-21T14:27:10Z")
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### Author: ![john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3e96dc/32.png) [@john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/john.cannon)
#### Post date: [25 August 2020 06:16 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/pygplates-dylib-error/169/3 "2020-08-25T06:16:56Z")

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For others reading this, please note that this has been resolved by the new macOS builds (although there are still some warnings related to `libQt5Core` when used in Anaconda, that we’ll look into resolving for the next release, but they don’t appear to be showstoppers)…

> [@PyGPlates supports Python 3](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/pygplates-supports-python-3/165/2):
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> Please note that we’ve uploaded new [macOS builds](https://sourceforge.net/projects/gplates/files/pygplates/beta-revision-28/). The previous ones only supported macOS 10.15+ (Catalina). The new ones support 10.13+ (High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, and any upcoming macOS release). Also note that you may get the following message when loading/saving OGR files (eg, Shapefiles) with pyGPlates (although if you happen to have the PROJ library installed on your system then you might not): ERROR 1: PROJ: proj\_identify: Cannot find proj.db ERROR 1: PROJ: proj\_create\_from\_database:…

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