[PyQt] Help understanding a backtrace

Kovid Goyal kovid at kovidgoyal.net
Fri Jan 20 03:32:46 GMT 2012


On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 06:24:41PM +0100, Erik Janssens wrote:
> FYI, since PyQt 4.9 you don't need to disable the garbage
> collector any more.
> 
> When Python desides to delete a Qt object from a different
> thread, PyQt delayes the deletion until that thread has
> taken control.

I know, I was involved in making that change :) However, I cannot always 
control what version of PyQt calibre runs on and rather than having two
different behaviors based on PyQt version, I left in the old workaround, since
it doesn't do any harm.

Kovid.

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