[PyQt] why use the non-gui Qt classes in Python

[Christopher Probst]

Thank-you Florian. I very much appreciate this feedback.

On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 12:04, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 11:59:17AM -0400, Christopher Probst wrote:
> > Beyond signals and slots, is there any advantage in using the non-GUI Qt
> > classes in a PyQt application. Why would I use QSQLDatabase, the network
> > module if Python offers it already?
>
> There are sometimes reasons - some examples:
>
> - In general, things being async, i.e. not blocking your GUI (QProcess,
>   networking, QSerial vs. PySerial, etc.)
> - QSqlDatabase because you want to show it in a QTableView
> - Better integration with Qt in general (e.g. QThread)
> - Some functionality which is just nicer in Qt (QUrl vs. a urllib.parse
>   tuple)
> - Some functionality which doesn't exist in Python
>
> Often, the main drawback is the more complex error handling, as you get
> manual error checks instead of exceptions.
>
> Florian
>
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