In practice PyQt works very well and you do not encounter problems with memory management or crashes.
Barry > On 17 Aug 2019, at 10:39, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.pyt...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Was browsing when i came across this hilarious piece of text: > > *Once upon a time there was a programming language called C. And it had 2 > memory management functions: malloc() and free(). But it was too > complicated. Bjarne Stroustrup decided that C memory management should be > easier. So he invented C++. In addition to malloc() and free(), C++ had > new, delete, destructors, RAII, auto and shared pointers. Guido van Rossum > found that C++ was also not simple enough. He chose another way and > invented Python - a language which doesn’t have even malloc() or free(). > Meanwhile Norwegian trolls created the C++ GUI library Qt. It simplifies > memory management by deleting objects automatically when it thinks the > objects are not needed. A man called Phil Thompson was upset that a cool > library like Qt doesn’t exist in the excellent Python language. He combined > them in the PyQt project. But it is not so easy to combine different memory > management paradigms. Let’s see what the pitfalls are. (Text above is a > fairy tale. Text below contains code and technical information)* > > source: http://enki-editor.org/2014/08/23/Pyqt_mem_mgmt.html > > Yours, > > Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer > pythonmembers.club <http://www.pythonmembers.club/> | github > <https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ> > Mauritius > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
