I'm not if this is an actual bug or a user error, but a PyQt bug was just filed in Debian:
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702445 The reporter has 4.9.3, but I get the same with 4.9.6 and 4.10: Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 26 2013, 15:27:56) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import PyQt4.QtGui >>> PyQt4.QtGui.QIcon.themeSearchPaths() Segmentation fault (core dumped) Scott K _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt