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

[Dmitry Shachnev]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 06:22:52PM +0000, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
> > In other words: if you want to use Qt you *need* a QApplication instance.
> > That's Qt basics. Not using it is a bug.
>
> I understand,
>
> Nervertheless I think that the python binding should fail gracefully with
> an exception instead of segfaulting...

PyQt is just a binding, handling segfaults in underlying code is not its
responsibility. Moreover, it cannot distinguish segfaults because of missing
QApplication from other kinds of segfaults.

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Dmitry Shachnev
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