In a message of Sun, 08 Nov 2015 18:05:32 -0500, Terry Reedy writes: >On 11/8/2015 11:03 AM, Andrew Diamond wrote: >> On Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 10:13:25 PM UTC-5, Andrew Diamond >> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I'm fairly new to Python, and installed pyqt5 and began working >>> through the examples at http://zetcode.com/gui/pyqt5/menustoolbars/ >>> However, whenever I click one of the buttons or menus in the >>> example apps I run that is supposed to quit the application, it >>> locks up. > >What is 'it'? And what does 'lock up' mean? Did the gui freeze and not >disappear? Or did IDLE itself freeze, and even the menu quit working? > >>> This happens with all the examples I installed that >>> handle code to quit the app. >>> >>> Running Ubuntu 15.10, and installed pyqt5 via: >>> >>> sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5 sudo apt-get install qtcreator > >> I just read somewhere that the issue could be because I was trying to >> run these examples from within Idle. > >I am an IDLE maintainer. Am I to take it that everything ran fine >before you tried to quit? If not, I would want to know why and try to fix. > >If you run tut.py from an IDLE editor, IDLE tries to run it the same as >if you ran it at a console in the tut.py directory with 'python3 -i >tut.py'. I can imagine that there might be a problem with the >transition from gui mode to interactive shell mode, though it works for >tkinter apps. You said 'python3 tut.py' works. What happens if you add >the '-i' option? I'd like to know if the transition problem is in >(Py)qt5 or in IDLE's simulation of '-i'. > >-- >Terry Jan Reedy
I suspect that Qt and Idle are disagreeing as to who gets to have the main thread around here. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
