Am Monday, 19. January 2009 schrieb Giovanni Bajo: > On 1/19/2009 3:13 PM, eliben wrote: > > I've seen various references to this issue before, but nothing to fully > > address it as I'd expect. > > > > Can you comment on the pros and cons of using QThread vs Python's threads > > with PyQt? > > > > I'll begin: on the surface, Python's threads make more sense because > > they're Qt independent and can be ported between apps that don't > > necessarily depend on Qt (for example a web version of a GUI app). The > > Python thread API is powerful enough for all uses, it seems. > > > > However, there are concerns. Perhaps QThreads are more efficient? Or > > maybe more tightly integrated with the other parts of PyQt, so it's > > easier to use them? > > It's mostly the same. The main difference is that QThreads are better > integrated with Qt (asynchrnous signals/slots, event loop, etc.). Also, > you can't use Qt from a Python thread (you can't for instance post event > to the main thread through QApplication.postEvent): you need a QThread > for that to work.
I am doing a QCoreApplication.postEvent() out of "run()" from a "threading.Thread" class without any problems. Christoph
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