[PyQt] Lingering exception

[Florian Bruhin]

Hi,

I faced a very interesting issue with my code, which only seems to
happen on Ubuntu (not Archlinux/Windows 7), with Python 3.3.2, PyQt
5.0.1 and Qt 5.0.2 (though my versions on Arch/Windows might be
newer).

In my source at [1] I get this traceback:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "./qutebrowser/keyinput/modeman.py", line 231, in eventFilter
        if self.mode is None:
    AttributeError: 'ModeManager' object has no attribute 'mode'

Now mode is a simple @property:

    @property
    def mode(self):
        """Read-only property for the current mode."""
        if not self._mode_stack:
            return None
        return self._mode_stack[-1]

self._mode_stack is defined in __init__ so it certainly always exists.
After discovering [2] I catched the AttributeError inside the
property, and got this exception in the "return self._mode_stack[-1]"
line:

    AttributeError: _Progress object has no attribute 'QWidget'

(_Progress is defined at [3]). It seems to be a lingering exception,
as doing this before the return fixes it:

    try:
        raise
    except:
        pass

According to the helpful folks in #python, PyQt either didn't check
for exceptions when it should have, or it didn't call PyExc_Clear()
after handling one.

I'm pretty certain I never do anything like   _Progress.QWidget   in
my Python code, so even that exception doesn't make much sense to me.

It only happens when starting the application for half a second or so,
after that it seems fine. ModeManager is an eventFilter on
QApplication.

If you want to experiment yourself:

    git clone git://the-compiler.org/qutebrowser/
    git checkout 14873285e662ddca685b565368b9e8466c9a316b

(After that commit I work around the error).

If a trimmed down example would help, please let me know. If it works
without one I'd be happy as it'd be quite some work to trim the code
down I'd guess.

Thanks a lot,

Florian

[1] http://git.the-compiler.org/qutebrowser/tree/qutebrowser/keyinput/modeman.py?id=c8fd0937b0f4b695d8c3b6838884f21f14339ffd#n58
[2] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2011-April/029667.html
[3] http://git.the-compiler.org/qutebrowser/tree/qutebrowser/widgets/_statusbar.py#n398

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