[PyQt] GIL / pyqt4

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Wed Dec 14 16:44:21 GMT 2016


On 9 Dec 2016, at 6:14 pm, Carl Wolff <carl at wolff-online.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> While running in qt designer we see that if no qt events are emerging from qt, the python interpreter GIL is being held continuously by pyqt.
> 
> Is this true?

Yes. It's now fixed in PyQt5 but I don't want to make similar changes to PyQt4 at this stage of its development.

Phil


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