[PyQt] Python Threads and Qt threads

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk
Mon Oct 8 08:49:02 BST 2007


On Monday 08 October 2007, Nahuel Defossé wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm writing a small front end for my azureus using dopal (Swing ui is not
> for me).
> The thing is, I need to perform some background tasks so I need to use
> threads. But, I have native python threads and also Qt threads. Seems like
> I should use Qt's threads since they are QObject's, and they've got the
> slot/signal stuff. But, I was wondering if there are some noticeable
> differences between them (performance, locking).

Unlikely as they are both wrappers around the same native thread 
implementations.

Phil



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