[PyQt] Add Unix signal handler class to PyQt

[Florian Bruhin]

* Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net> [2016-08-02 07:19:28 +0530]:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> Could you please add a class to PyQt to enable handling of Unix signals
> inside the Qt event loop. 
> 
> The theory for it is here: https://github.com/sijk/qt-unix-signals
> 
> A class based on that theory (MIT licensed) is here: https://github.com/sijk/qt-unix-signals
> 
> I can of course add this class to my own projects, but then it makes the
> project no longer pure python.

FWIW I implemented something similar in Python, and it's relatively
straight-forward:

https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/blob/v0.8.1/qutebrowser/misc/crashsignal.py#L272-L398

> It would be very useful to have this capability in PyQt out of the box.

I can see where you're coming from, but I think PyQt should wrap Qt
and not random third-party projects ;)

Florian

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