[PyQt] Bug when PyQt5 sends Python bytes object via signal between threads

[Phil Thompson]

On 1 Dec 2016, at 9:38 am, Rudolf Cardinal <rudolf at pobox.com> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> I think I've found a bug in the way that PyQt5 sends Python 3 "bytes" objects as signal parameters. They can arrive corrupted, and this seems to happen only when (a) the signal is sent to another thread (via the default Qt::AutoConnection type), and (b) the object being sent is created as a temporary variable.
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> I suspect this means that the reference counting has gone wrong and the temporary is being garbage-collected before or during receipt, so the receiver is effectively using a dangling pointer, and I note that "bytes" objects seem to have a special "don't know, call it a const char*" handling in qpycore_chimera.cpp (line 419), but I'm not sure exactly what the root problem is.

I think this is already fixed in the snapshots.

Phil