Thanks.

Using that as my search term, I found this thread: 
http://groups.google.com/group/pyside/browse_thread/thread/119c67971132f78a

What confuses me now is that there is both a google group and a python mailing 
list.

Pepijn

On Oct 27, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Hugo Parente Lima wrote:

> On Thursday 27 October 2011 13:06:25 Pepijn de Vos wrote:
>> Read Eval Print Loop. Like what you get when you type `python` or `ipython`
>> even. What is that called in Python language? Interactive shell or
>> something?
> 
> I think is interactive shell, I'm not sure but at least now I know YAA[1] ;-)
> 
> But back to the subject, PySide doesn't support interactive shells, REPL, 
> whatever when inside the Qt event loop, however you can file a bug[2] about 
> this missing feature.
> 
> Regards
> 
> [1] Yet Another Acronym
> [2] http://bugs.pyside.org
> 
> 
>> Pepijn
>> 
>> On Oct 27, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Hugo Parente Lima wrote:
>>> On Thursday 27 October 2011 06:33:47 Pepijn de Vos wrote:
>>>> Thanks. So What about a REPL? I really want that, so if it isn't there,
>>>> I'll attempt to write it.
>>> 
>>> Sorry, but what means the term REPL?
>>> 
>>>> Pepijn
>>>> 
>>>> On Oct 26, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Hugo Parente Lima wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday 26 October 2011 11:58:14 Pepijn de Vos wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm trying to get started with PySide, after some hacking on
>>>>>> https://bitbucket.org/3david/qtodotxt
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> disclaimer: I'm a little frustrated, but I mean well.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I read about the model-view architecture, so I want to start by
>>>>>> developing my model, which would update itself with a
>>>>>> QFileSystemWatcher.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The event loop is severely interfering with my development process.
>>>>>> Before I start it, nothing works, after I start it, I can't use the
>>>>>> REPL anymore.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My very modest goal for today was to test QFileSystemWatcher, because
>>>>>> in my hacking on QTodoTxt, it only notified once and then crashed.
>>>>>> It's telling that watching files has its own module on the Qt bug
>>>>>> tracker.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Simple, right?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 1. open a file
>>>>>> 2. set up a watcher
>>>>>> 2. register a handler
>>>>>> 3. write to the file
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But... the watcher only runs when I start the event loop. How would I
>>>>>> write to a file after that?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best would be to run the event loop in the background, or have a REPL
>>>>>> that runs on the event loop. Couldn't find how to do it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Second alternative would be to set up a Signal to invoke the write
>>>>>> from the event loop. How? How about...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> s = Signal()
>>>>>> s.connect(write)
>>>>>> s.emit()
>>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>>>>> AttributeError: 'PySide.QtCore.Signal' object has no attribute 'emit'
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here is the code to do this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> from PySide.QtCore import *
>>>>> import tempfile
>>>>> import sys
>>>>> 
>>>>> def onFileChanged(path):
>>>>>  print("%s was changed!" % path)
>>>>>  QCoreApplication.instance().quit()
>>>>> 
>>>>> def writeOnMyFile():
>>>>>  global file
>>>>>  print("Writing on %s." % file.name)
>>>>>  file.write("Hello World\n")
>>>>> 
>>>>>   # The file will not be modified until you call flush, close the file
>>>>>   or
>>>>> 
>>>>> write contents enough.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  file.flush()
>>>>> 
>>>>> app = QCoreApplication(sys.argv)
>>>>> 
>>>>> file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
>>>>> 
>>>>> watcher = QFileSystemWatcher()
>>>>> watcher.addPath(file.name)
>>>>> watcher.fileChanged.connect(onFileChanged)
>>>>> QTimer.singleShot(0, writeOnMyFile)
>>>>> sys.exit(app.exec_())
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> 
>>>>>> You don't expect me to set up a push button to fire the event, right?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Okay, then maybe there is a test framework for PySide that understand
>>>>>> the event loop, like in Twisted. Maybe? Searching for it turned up
>>>>>> nothing, but at last I found
>>>>>> http://www.pyside.org/docs/pyside/PySide/QtTest/QTest.html No idea how
>>>>>> to use it though.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm sure this is all very simple to you, but I've been trying for
>>>>>> hours to do something simple, like testing a file watcher.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Pepijn
> 
> -- 
> Hugo Parente Lima
> INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia

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