On Thu, 30 May 2013 22:49:24 +0100 (BST), John Lee <j...@pobox.com> wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to guarantee that a C++ destructor of a QObject wrapped by > PyQt is never called? > > In C++ code, I can just avoid ever deleting the QObject, by not giving it > a QObject parent, so that Qt does not manage its lifetime. In Python > code, it isn't obvious to me whether Python might cause the C++ d'tor to
> be called, for example during interpreter shutdown. > > The particular case I'm interested in is ~QProcess, whose destructor has > the interesting (!) behaviour of sending the KILL signal to any child > process that it may have started. I want to ensure that my program > doesn't ever call that destructor, so that the KILL signal is guaranteed > not to be sent (or at least, that it is only called after the child > process has terminated for other reasons). Is that possible? > > If I can't guarantee that from PyQt, can I write a simple sip wrapper that > will achieve the same end, without copying and pasting the Qt code? sip.setdestroyonexit() might do what you want. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt