[PyKDE] Starting QApplication from a python thread

[Jeremy Sanders]

On a related not to my last posting, why doesn't the following code work?

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import thread
import sys
import time

def threadfn():
     import qt
     app = qt.QApplication([sys.argv[0]])
     win = qt.QMainWindow()
     win.setCaption('foo bar')
     win.show()
     app.exec_loop()

t = thread.start_new_thread(threadfn, ())

i = 0
while 1:
     print i
     time.sleep(1)
     i += 1

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After carefully reading the PyQt docs, it suggests that as long as I keep 
all pyqt references to a single thread, things should work.

However the window never appears here, and the infinite loops stops 
counting.

Am I missing something obvious.

This is with PyQt-3.13 and python-2.3.4

Thanks

Jeremy

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