[PySide] PySide2 + multiprocessing + requests = crash?

[Israel Brewster]

> On Dec 17, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
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> QApplication has to be on the main thread.
> So I would guess (without seeing the crash) that yes, it's bad form. 

It *is* on the main thread. Of a child process, true, but the main thread of that process. Multiprocessing, not multithreading. Presumably that’s why it generally works - as long as I don’t try to make a web request :-)

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> Generally when I want to do something like ehat you are doing, I set a singlshot timer to fire (interval: 0) start the event loop (app.exec() or app.exec_() in python) then the event loop wth execute the timer code.

No event loop here. I’m just creating QWidgets, setting contents, and using .grab() to save the contents as an image, after which the widgets are discarded. The only reason I have a QApplication at all is that you can’t create QWidgets without one.

There is no user interaction, no displayed GUI at any point. In fact, I’m initializing QApplication with a platform of offscreen. I just want to work with multiple QWidgets simultaneously to generate multiple images in parallel - thus the need for multiprocessing.

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> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 1:13 PM
> From: "Israel Brewster" <ijbrewster at alaska.edu>
> To: pyside at qt-project.org
> Subject: [PySide] PySide2 + multiprocessing + requests = crash?
> I’ve found what seems to be an odd crash to me. Using PySide2 and multiprocessing works fine to create a QAppliction in a separate process (unless this is considered bad form?) - unless I call requests.get at some point before starting said process, in which case the process crashes (hard crash, not python exception). How might I fix this?
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> A little background: I’m using Qt classes to generate a bunch of images from data files. To speed things along, I launch a process (using multiprocessing.Process) for each image I want to generate, and in each process I create a QApplication, create and fill the widgets I need for the image, and then save the image to a file. This appears to work fine, creating the images in parallel. Today I tried to do a requests call before doing any of the processing (simple get, doesn’t interact with QT in any way), and suddenly my code started crashing.
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> Some simplified sample code that illustrates the issue:
>  
> import time
> import multiprocessing
> import sys
> from PySide2.QtWidgets import QApplication
> import requests
>  
>  
> def test_wait():
>     print("Starting proc")
>     try:
>         QApplication(sys.argv + ['-platform', 'offscreen'])
>     except Exception as err:
>         print("oops", err)
>  
>     print("Sleeping now...")
>     time.sleep(10)
>  
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     proc = multiprocessing.Process(target=test_wait)
>     proc.start()
>     proc.join()
>     print("Awake again. Let's try another:")
>  
>     res = requests.get('https://www.google.com <https://www.google.com/>')  # or whatever your favorite is
>     res.text  # Get the response, close it out
>  
>     proc = multiprocessing.Process(target=test_wait)
>     start = time.time()
>     proc.start()
>     proc.join()
>  
>     # The process should sleep for 10 seconds, so if we got here in less than 9, we died.
>     if time.time() - start < 9:
>         print("Never slept :(")
>     else:
>         print("We lived!")
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