Bug#844601: python-spyder: "from spyder.plugins.editor import Editor" hangs the machine

Sun Nov 27 15:16:36 UTC 2016

Hello Dmitry

> The QFontDatabase method will definitely not work properly without a
> Q(Gui)Application instance.

thanks for this analyze.

so if I understand correctly, the problem is in the QFontDatabse method which should raise an exception instead of segfaulting.

right ?

so I should clone this bug and assign it to python{3}-pyqt5

sice it is a segfault maybe the culprite is  around sip...

Cheers

Fred