[PyQt] Exceptions in Python Implementations of Virtuals

[Kovid Goyal]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 09:31:26AM +0100, Phil Thompson wrote:
> For all exceptions raised by virtual reimplementations (and slots connected
> to signals) PyQt will invoke an error handler that will check if
> sys.excepthook has been modified. If it has been modified then it does
> nothing, otherwise it calls qFatal(). That should mean that "good"
> applications continue to work without changes.
> 
> It will be possible to specify (in the .sip file) that an individual virtual
> must not raise an unhandled exception. This would be implemented by
> explicitly calling abort() after calling the error handler.
> 

Sounds good to me, personally, but then I am a good boy and set
sys.excepthook in all my PyQt applications.

I suspect a lot of people are going to find a lot of applications
crashing unexpectedly on updating to 5.4 :)

Kovid.

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