On Thursday 19 April 2007 1:37 pm, V. Armando Sole wrote: > Phil Thompson wrote: > > """ > 3. Automatically release the GIL whenever any Qt call is made from a > QObject derived class. The assumption is that this will cover the vast > majority of cases. Any other cases would have to be identified through bug > reports. """
This applied to PyQt4, not PyQt3. > I guess I have one bug report. > > We have got some problems with old PyQt3 applications when upgrading to the > latest sip and PyQt. The problem comes from the new GIL handling and the > use of QApplication.postEvent inside QThreads. > > While we agree on the above described behaviour, perhaps an exception > should be made for qt.QApplication.postEvent (at least from inside a > QThread). The cleanest way we found to solve our problem is to replace > every appearence of QApplication.postEvent by QThread.postEvent if the call > is made from inside a qthread. At the qt level both calls are exactly the > same, but Trolltech says in the documentation that QThread.postEvent is > obsolete. > > The code below reproduces the problem if desired and shows the solution > too. It's a regression in 3.17.1 and I've backed out the change in tonight's snapshot. If you confirm it fixes your problems I'll release 3.17.2 in the next few days. Thanks, Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
