[PySide] IPython Mac 10.7 QApplication instance already exists

[Blair Zajac]

<nitpick>

According to PEP-8, don't compare using == to singletons:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations

"""Comparisons to singletons like None should always be done with is or 
is not, never the equality operators."""

app = QApplication.instance()
if app is None:
     app = QApplication(sys.argv)
</nitpick>

Blair

On 05/23/2012 02:19 PM, Jason Augustyn wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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