[PyQt] Segfault on exceptions in QNetworkAccessManager::createRequest

[Florian Bruhin]

* Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net> [2014-09-26 09:31:48 +0530]:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:32:47PM +0100, Phil Thompson wrote:
> > I would argue that the alternative of returning an arbitrary QNetworkReply
> > instance (in this case) is worse because it is a bug that would be extremely
> > difficult to detect and isolate. At least with a crash you know where it
> > happened.
> 
> That's what the print is for. If you really want to crash then dont
> segfault, at least use qFatal.

Why a print?

Why not just *raise the exception* so the configured exception handler
gets invoked (for me that is a crash dialog where the user can report
the crash and restart, with their data emergency-saved).

Currently I achieve this by doing something like this:


def createRequest(...):
    try:
        ...
    except:
        logging.exception("Error in createRequest")
        return False


Then I get the exception in my log, and with the "return False" get a
PyQt exception so my crash dialog shows up.

Long story short - I'd really expect 'raise Exception' in that code to
do the same 'return False' does: raise an exception and *somehow*
prevent a segfault.

Florian

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