[PyQt] ImportError QtWebEngineWidgets

[Florian Bruhin]

* Miguel Alejandro Fernández <alejandrogroso at hotmail.com> [2016-08-20 00:52:51 +0000]:
> in my application the next error is raised:
>     from PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets import QWebEngineView
>     ImportError: QtWebEngineWidgets must be imported before a
> QCoreApplication instance is created
> 
> It does not make sense to have this requirement !.
> How to be that this requirement is present?
> Is it a bug?

Well, I'm guessing there's a reason it's there! ;)

From the code:

// QtWebEngineWidgets uses Q_COREAPP_STARTUP_FUNCTION so, in order to make sure
// things work (particularly on Windows) when we dynamically load the code, we
// check things have been done in the right order.

Florian

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