Hi, I always used QThread and emit() in order to communicate with main QThread without problems:
thread = Thread(self) self.connet(thread, SIGNAL("Signal")) thread.start() 2009/1/19 Christoph Burgmer <chri...@gmx.de>: > Am Monday, 19. January 2009 schrieb Giovanni Bajo: > >> On 1/19/2009 3:13 PM, eliben wrote: > >> > I've seen various references to this issue before, but nothing to fully > >> > address it as I'd expect. > >> > > >> > Can you comment on the pros and cons of using QThread vs Python's >> > threads > >> > with PyQt? > >> > > >> > I'll begin: on the surface, Python's threads make more sense because > >> > they're Qt independent and can be ported between apps that don't > >> > necessarily depend on Qt (for example a web version of a GUI app). The > >> > Python thread API is powerful enough for all uses, it seems. > >> > > >> > However, there are concerns. Perhaps QThreads are more efficient? Or > >> > maybe more tightly integrated with the other parts of PyQt, so it's > >> > easier to use them? > >> > >> It's mostly the same. The main difference is that QThreads are better > >> integrated with Qt (asynchrnous signals/slots, event loop, etc.). Also, > >> you can't use Qt from a Python thread (you can't for instance post event > >> to the main thread through QApplication.postEvent): you need a QThread > >> for that to work. > > I am doing a > > QCoreApplication.postEvent() > > out of "run()" from a "threading.Thread" class without any problems. > > Christoph > > _______________________________________________ > PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt > _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt