[PyQt] Re: PyQt4 gc problems

[Tim Blechmann]

hi all,

>>> > so, i had quite a number of crashes, with messages like:
>>> >
>>> > ASSERT failure in QCoreApplication::sendEvent: "Cannot send events
>>> > to objects owned by a different thread. Current thread b022db50.
>>> > Receiver 'mainWindow' (of type 'QWidget') was created in thread
>>> > 83ffd10", file kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp, line 269
>>> >
>>> > from what i can tell, these events are sent from the python garbage
>>> > collector, which is called from an arbitrary thread, that is
>>> > accessing python. after disabling the automatic gc and running
>>> > gc.collect() from the QApplication loop manually, it seems to work
>>> > flawless.
>>> >
>>> > is this a known bug/feature?
>>> >
>>> > thanks, tim
>>>
>>> Try the current snapshot.
>> 
>> ...and I should have said - and the current SIP snapshot.
>> 
>> Phil
> 
> ah, i just saw in the sip changelog, that a bug with similar symptoms
> has been fixed a few weeks ago ...

i've upgraded to the latest debian packages of pyqt and sip (4.7.1). 
however i still experience the problem, described above ... 

is this issue known to be completely fixed?

thanks, tim

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