[PyKDE] trouble with QLabel

[Steven James Samuel Stapleton]

Hello, I'm new to PyQT and having some troubles trying to get an app to 
work.

I created a class called "about" (see the about.py section at the end), to 
create an about message when about/help -> about on the menu bar is clicked. 
When I try to create the class (see "creation snippet"), I get an error:

app_about_popup = about()
FILE "E:\My Documents\VAR\APP\about.py", line 16, in __init__
""", self)
RuntimeError: Underlying C/C++ object has been deleted


What could cause this?
Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton


creation snippet
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#About/Help options
app_about_popup = about()
app_about = about_menu.addAction("About this app", app_about_popup, 
a.qt.SLOT("show()"))
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about.py
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import ui.qt_import as qt_import
from logistic.io.cio import *
test, qt = qt_import.verify_import()
if(not test):
  printf("Error, unable to load PyQt libraries, bailing.\n")
  exit()
class about(qt.QWidget):
  def __init__(self):
    l = qt.QLabel("""
This is the Species and Item generator for VAR.
This program is desiged to help create species and
items in the VAR system.
Written by S James S Stapleton
""", self)
    l.setGeometry(5,5,290,160)
    p = qt.QPushButton("OK", self)
    p.setGeometry(5,165,290,30)
    qt.QObject.connect(btn_quit, qt.SIGNAL("clicked()"), app, 
qt.SLOT("hide()"))
    self.resize(300,200)
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