[PyQt] Exception propagation in the exec_() loop

[Bryan A. Jones]

All,

It seems that exceptions which occur in an event loop (when calling
app.exec_(), for instance) are caught and printed, but not passed on. Is
there any way to allow exceptions to propagate past exec_()? As a concrete
example, the following code prints the following backtrace, but doesn't
exit.

import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import QTimer
from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication

def af():
    assert False

def main():
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    QTimer.singleShot(0, af)
    app.exec_()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()


Results:
C:\Users\bjones\Documents\enki_all\enki\tests>tst_signal2.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\bjones\Documents\enki_all\enki\tests\tst_signal2.py", line
6, in af
    assert False
AssertionError

...but the program keeps running; I can't try/catch these in main().

Bryan
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