On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:15:20 -0700 (PDT), Edgar Fuentes <fuente...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear friends, > > I need execute an external program from a gui using PyQt4, to avoid > that hang the main thread, i must connect the signal "finished(int)" > of a QProcess to work properly. > > for example, why this program don't work? > > from PyQt4.QtCore import QProcess > pro = QProcess() # create QProcess object > pro.connect(pro, SIGNAL('started()'), lambda > x="started":print(x)) # connect > pro.connect(pro, SIGNAL("finished(int)"), lambda > x="finished":print(x)) > pro.start('python',['hello.py']) # star hello.py program > (contain print("hello world!")) > timeout = -1 > pro.waitForFinished(timeout) > print(pro.readAllStandardOutput().data()) > > output: > > started > 0 > b'hello world!\n' > > see that not emit the signal finished(int)
Yes it is, and your lambda slot is printing "0" which is the return code of the process. Phil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list