[PyQt] Troubleshooting when unable to get SIP type definition

[Arve Knudsen]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Phil Thompson
<phil at riverbankcomputing.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:38:09 +0200, Arve Knudsen <arve.knudsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Are there any good troubleshooting techniques when unable to get a type
> > definition from the SIP API? Sometimes, when there are inconsistencies in
> > my
> > build I am unable to get the type definition for QWidget, and I waste a
> lot
> > of time trying to find out what's gone wrong. If SIP itself could give me
> > some useful info wrt. to its state, I'm sure that could save me a great
> > deal
> > of time.
>
> I don't know what you mean by its state.
>
> QWidget's type definition is a static data structure - sipType_QWidget. You
> don't get it, you just reference it.


This is from an application embedding Python, so I'm calling SIP's C API.
In this case I have no choice but to go via the API right? What I do is call
api_find_type("QWidget"), which in this case returns NULL.

Arve
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