[PyQt] ANN: PyQt v4.4 and SIP v4.7.5 Released

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Sat May 17 18:00:28 BST 2008


On Tuesday 13 May 2008 19:04:09 Erick Tryzelaar wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Phil Thompson
>
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> >  > >  This release fully supports Qt v4.4 with the exception of
> >  > > QtConcurrent.
> >  >
> >  > Do you anticipate on supporting this in the near term future?
> >
> >  Given the GIL it doesn't make much sense - unless somebody has got some
> > bright ideas...
>
> The thing I was interested in was using the QThreadPool and QRunnable
> classes. For my  project, I want to throw some expensive database
> queries into multiple threads. Since that will block IO bound, the GIL
> should be released before the call, which would allow for the threads
> to run at the same time.

These are in the latest snapshot.

Phil


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