[pyqt] closing qwidget's parent qapplication

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I’m scripting Pyqt Qdialog widgets using py charm. The widgets generally prompt user to select a list item then close and return the value. But I have noticed that when testing outside of Maya, the process does not quit - no “process completed with return code(0)” message from Pycharm.

I assume this means that the qapplication instance is still running. So, how do I have my widget close both itself and the parent qapplication? Is there a best practice for this?

Also, the widgets are ultimately run in Maya. Is a qwidget’s close() method sufficient for garbage collection when Maya is the parent qapplication?

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.close() will just hide the dialog, unless setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose) has been called.

Which could explain why your app isn’t closing in PyCharm.

3

Thanks, that did the trick.

I also wonder if there is a possibility of wrapping QApplication in a context manager. I have not built my own context managers, so not sure what’s involved.

4

Something like this should technically work.
Not sure how useful it is overall though.

import sys
from PyQt5 import QtWidgets 


class QApp(QtWidgets.QApplication):

    def __enter__(self):
        return self


    def __exit__(self, exctype, excval, exctb):
        sys.excit(self.exec_())


if __name__ == '__main__':
    
    with QApp(sys.argv) as app:
        w = QtWidgets.QWidget()
        w.resize(250, 150)
        w.move(300, 300)
        w.setWindowTitle('Simple')
        w.show()