[PyQt] PYQt defaults to fonts looking bold on macOS but C++ Qt does not

[Phil Thompson]

On 6 Jul 2016, at 11:55 am, Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 6 Jul 2016, at 11:50, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
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>> On 6 Jul 2016, at 11:26 am, Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Compare the windows snapshots taken for a PyQt5 app and a C++ Qt5 app
>>> that use a QLabel control.
>>> 
>>> http://www.barrys-emacs.org/export/Qt5.png
>>> 
>>> http://www.barrys-emacs.org/export/PyQt5.png
>>> 
>>> You can see that the text in PyQt5 looks like it is bold compared to the
>>> Qt5 version.
>>> 
>>> On Fedora I see that same text for Qt5 and PyQT5.
>>> 
>>> Please fix this problem in PyQt5.
>>> 
>>> The source code I used is in:
>>> 
>>> http://barrys-emacs.org/export/font-example.tar.gz
>>> 
>>> Note: This bug affects all text, list, tables, line edit everything.
>> 
>> ...on your system. It works fine for me. PyQt does nothing with fonts.
> 
> Oh. I have not knowingly done anything that would cause this.
> 
> If I wanted to globally change the font used by PyQt5 how would I do it?
> Is there a config file that PyQt5 will read that Qt will not?

No.

Phil