[PySide] IPython Mac 10.7 QApplication instance already exists

[Jason Augustyn]

Thanks, Nathan, after poking around a bit more I found a similar solution:

app = QApplication.instance()
if app == None:
app = QApplication(sys.argv)

This works!



On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Nathan Smith <nathanjsmith at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> PySide only supports creating a single persistent instance of
> QApplication. This singleton exists forever and cannot be deleted.  If you
> have a function that tries to create a QApplication, then I recommend
> placing that creation inside of a try/except block:
>
> try:
>   app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
> except RuntimeError:
>   app = QtCore.QCoreApplication.instance()
>
>
> This will either create a new QApplication instance if one does not exist,
> or return the current QApplication instance if one already does exist.
>
> Nathan
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Jason Augustyn <js.augustyn at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all, I am new to using PySide and have been working through the novice
>> tutorials, which are great. One problem - I cannot re-run a script without
>> exiting the Python shell altogether. Re-running gives the RuntimeError: A
>> QApplication instance already exists.
>>
>> I have searched for a solution and found an old bug tracker ticket from
>> someone with a similar problem. The suggested solution was to upgrade to
>> PySide 1.0.4 and the ticket was marked as invalid. Obviously that doesn;t
>> work, as I'm running the newest version of PySide and still have the
>> problem. Any suggestions? I am using IPython on a Mac OSX 10.7.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jason
>>
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