[PyQt] PyQt4 and Stackless 2.5.2?

[Phil Thompson]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:53:00 -0400, inhahe <inhahe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:32:34 -0400, inhahe <inhahe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can anyone tell me how to get PyQt4 working with Stackless?
>>>
>>> I found this:
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Subject:      Re: [PyQt] PyQt4.3 and stackless python 2.5.1
> working?Link to
>>> this message
>>> From: Michael Guntsche (mi... at it-loops.com)
>>> Date: 08/28/2007 04:20:16 PM
>>> List: org.kde.pykde
>>>
>>> On Aug 29, 2007, at 0:08, Michael Guntsche wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I recently played around a little bit with stackless python and also
>>> wanted to try it together with PyQt to see how lightweight threading
>>> works. The problem is that it look like stackless and pyqt4 do not
>>> like each other very much.
>>>
>>> Ok, answering my own mail here after searching through the stackless
>>> mail archive. Changing siplib.c like explained here
>>> http://article.gmane.org/ gmane.comp.python.stackless/2431 gave me a
>>> working sip and pyqt with stackless python. I have not tested if this
>>> breaks normal python but I thought I might post an answer to the list
>>> in case someone else is looking for it.
>>>
>>> Kind regards, Micaehl
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> But the link given is just a blank page now.
>>
>> The link contains an obvious typo.
>>
>>> So does anyone know what
>>> change needs to be made to siplib.c?  Also, would I have to compile
>>> SIP and PyQt4, or could I just compile SIP and use the PyQt4 Windows
>>> binaries?  Because I already tried compiling PyQt4....it doesn't work.
>>
>> The change was made to SIP v4.7.1.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
> 
> Hmm, I have SIP 4.7.4, and I got an unhandled exception when importing
> anything from PyQt, until I made that change in SIP.   Now I can
> import without an exception, but I tried running a small sample app
> and it gives me an unhandled exception.
> 
> here's the sample app
> 
> import os
> import sys
> from PyQt4.QtCore import *
> from PyQt4.QtGui import *
> 
> def main():
>     app = QApplication(sys.argv)
>     w = MyWindow()
>     w.show()
>     sys.exit(app.exec_())
> 
> class MyWindow(QWidget):
>     def __init__(self, *args):
>         QWidget.__init__(self, *args)
> 
>         # create objects
>         label = QLabel(self.tr("Enter command and press Return"))
>         self.le = QLineEdit()
>         self.te = QTextEdit()
> 
>         # layout
>         layout = QVBoxLayout(self)
>         layout.addWidget(label)
>         layout.addWidget(self.le)
>         layout.addWidget(self.te)
>         self.setLayout(layout)
> 
>         # create connection
>         self.connect(self.le, SIGNAL("returnPressed(void)"),
>                      self.run_command)
> 
>     def run_command(self):
>         cmd = str(self.le.text())
>         stdouterr = os.popen4(cmd)[1].read()
>         self.te.setText(stdouterr)
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     main()
> 
> I also just upgraded to SIP 4.7.7, and it didn't help.  Although it
> does appear that I can at least import without an exception with SIP
> 4.7.7.  Do I need to recompile and/or reinstall PyQt after changing
> SIP?

Yes, but why would you change SIP?

Phil