I found out that a similar issue was reported for Spyder the same day
as this one...

So I just posted something about this bug on PyQt mailing list:
http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2012-February/031166.html

-Pierre

Le 26 février 2012 12:23, Pierre Raybaut <pierre.rayb...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> Le 25/02/2012 22:59, John Hunter a écrit :
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> >     I would be interested in accelerating the schedule.  Since this is
>>> > a
>>> >     bug-fix release and not a major release, we can presume the tree is
>>> >     pretty stable.  How about we aim for an release candidate rc1 the
>>> >     week after next?  Are there any issues or pull requests that should
>>> >     hold the release?  If so, let's tag them with release-critical.
>>> >
>>> >     After we get the bugfix out I'd like to gear up for a major python3
>>> >     release.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The QT4 event handling bugs needs a qt expert on them. I tried looking
>>> > into them and there is no obvious reason to me why they aren't working.
>>>
>>> Are you referring to  771, 707, and 525?  771 would appear to be the
>>> most urgent.
>>
>>
>> 711 and 707.  Didn't even notice 525, but it is probably related to 707.
>>  If true, then 707 and 525 are likely focus issues (maybe window-manager
>> dependent?).  711 definitely seem to be release blocking.
>>
>
>
> Hi Pierre, we are still having trouble with the close event in mpl figure
> windows not being emitted.  I see you posted on this subject in 2009 and did
> some monkey patching to work around the problem for spyder
>
> http://old.nabble.com/Qt4-backend%3A-critical-bug-with-PyQt4-v4.6%2B-td26205716.html
>
> This was a while ago so I don't know if your suggestions are still
> appropriate for recent pyqt and mpl.  Would you have a minute to take a look
> at this mpl issue
>
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/711
>
> and advise us on a fix?
>
> Thanks,
> JDH
>
>
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> Replacing this (backend_qt4.py, class "FigureCanvasQT", line 141):
>         QtCore.QObject.connect(self, QtCore.SIGNAL('destroyed()'),
>                                self.close_event)
> by this:
>         QtCore.QObject.connect(self, QtCore.SIGNAL('destroyed()'),
>                                lambda: self.close_event())
> will solve this issue.
>
> The reason is that PyQt fails (silently) to call a method of this object
> just before detroying it. Using a lambda function will work, exactly the
> same as using a function (which is not bound to the object to be destroyed).
>
> Side note: I'm not sure that it's the intended behavior for PyQt...
>
> HTH,
> Pierre

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