[PyQt] QNetworkReply and PyQt 4.7.3-2

[Phil Thompson]

On Mon, 3 May 2010 15:52:30 -0300, Tiago Rezende <tiagosr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was using PyQt 4.7.1 for developing an app using QWebView as the
> main interface, and was coding a scheme not unlike that of Firefox
> with it's "chrome:" protocol, following some pointers from
> http://www.mail-archive.com/python-list@python.org/msg247104.html
> (which, with some slight changes, got me to where I wanted).
> Trouble is, when I updated to PyQt 4.7.3-2 on saturday, my program
> just stopped working, throwing a segfault on Python 2.6.5 (and even on
> IDLE, which to the extent that I know is in a separate instance) on
> Windows XP SP2 and Windows 7 x64 both (32bit Python on Windows 7,
> though), and isolating the cause, it happens to be exactly after I set
> up my custom QNetworkReply class to deliver the response my QWebView.
> Has anything changed with the QNetworkReply interface inbetween these
> versions? Here follows the minimal code needed to reproduce the bug,
> hope it helps.

A bug in QNetworkAccessManager.createRequest() was fixed (see the change
log). You need to make sure that your reply has the access manager as its
parent.

Phil