[PyKDE] PyQT: webbrowser.open crashes

[Ingo Linkweiler]

All my Qt-applications crash, when I try to do this:

import webbrowser
webbrowser.open_new("hilfe.html")  

Tested on many systems, all with Win2000 and IE6 as default browser 
(Python 2.2*, PyQt All versions, Qt NC)
Sometimes it works, but most time I get a general protection fault 
caused by python.
I get the same error when doing some os.spawn* with the iexplore.exe, 
when using other applications (notepad.exe) it seems to work.

A small demo showing the problem can be found here:
http://www.ingo-linkweiler.de/crashtest.py
Click "? -> Help" to see the error.
Please restart one or two times, if you do not get the error soon.

Any ideas to avoid this? Perhaps a problem of threading, because I get 
similar errors when I use the module "threading" ?

regards, Ingo