[PyQt] PyQt4.QtGui + uuid.uuid4() = segfault

[Baz Walter]

On 10/12/10 17:27, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> On Friday 10 December 2010, 18:04:08 Baz Walter wrote:
>> On 10/12/10 07:57, Christopher Singley wrote:
>>> Sorry, I spoke too fast.  The issue persists on my system:
>>>
>>> Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Dec  1 2010, 23:37:45)
>>> [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>>> information.
>>>
>>>>>> from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
>>>>>> QtCore.PYQT_VERSION_STR
>>>
>>> '4.8.1'
>>>
>>>>>> import uuid
>>>>>> uuid.uuid4()
>>>
>>> Segmentation fault
>>>
>>>
>>> Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Dec  1 2010, 23:37:45)
>>> [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>>> information.
>>>
>>>>>> import uuid
>>>>>> from PyQt4 import QtGui
>>>>>> uuid.uuid4()
>>>
>>> UUID('25599b3b-bc40-488f-ab9d-8beccde99def')
>>>
>>> The workaround here is therefore obvious, but I'd still to figure
>>> out what's going on here.  I don't have much experience debugging
>>> this sort of issue, any hints?
>>
>> sorry, but i don't have any hints. however, the problem does not
>> occur on my current set-up:
>>
>> Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Dec  2 2010, 03:10:07)
>> [GCC 4.5.1 20101125 (prerelease)] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>> information.
>>
>>   >>>  from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
>>   >>>  QtCore.PYQT_VERSION_STR
>>
>> '4.8.1'
>>
>>   >>>  import uuid
>>   >>>  uuid.uuid4()
>>
>> UUID('894b501b-5f3a-424e-a0cc-b57555fd64f3')
>
> I guess, that Christopher is talking about the import order, but neither
> I can reproduce this in any order:

the order i tested was the one that segfaults for Christopher (but just 
for the record, it doesn't cause problems for me in either order).