Bug: QApplication() raise nothing on tty

[Florian Bruhin]

Hey

> I couldn't find a bug tracker. Am I right here?

Yes, except I don't think this is a bug.

> When I try to create an instance of QApplication (PyQt5) the whole 
> Python instances crashes. I tried this in a tty terminal.
> 
> But I would expect that QApplication.__init__() raise an Exception (e.g. 
> RunTimeException) if something is wrong.
> 
> Currently I have to workaround such situations via checking environment 
> variables which blow up the code. I would better try to use a 
> try...except solution.

What situations exactly? In general, there is no way for PyQt to know
whether Qt will call abort(), and there is no way for it to react to it
when it happens.

Florian
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