[PyQt] pyqtSlot decorator

[Florian Bruhin]

* Jonathan Mizrahi <mizrahi.jonathan at gmail.com> [2015-09-24 09:10:29 -0400]:
> When, exactly, is it necessary to use the @pyqtSlot decorator? Also, if a
> signal calls a slot which has previously been garbage-collected, will that
> cause problems in the program? My own simple tests seemed to show that
> deleting slots, even pure Python slots which are not decorated, did not
> cause a problem. But, are there cases where it does?

I can't exactly pinpoint it, but I had various funny corner cases
(especially with PyQt versions < 5.4 or so) with segfaults,
RuntimeErrors, etc. which went away when I decorated the slots - so I
now always decorate them.

Florian

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