Destroying instances with PyQT

[Garry Taylor]

Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote in message news:<3cc59504$0$41709$e4fe514c at dreader4.news.xs4all.nl>...
> Garry Taylor wrote:
> 
> > I have attached a QTimer to one of my objects, but I cannot seem to
> > get rid of it when I'm finished, which cause the whole object not to
> > be destroyed, normally my instances are erased simply by erasing the
> > Dictionary in which they reside, which has always worked before the
> > QTimer was added. In the QT manual it says you can destruct an
> > instance like this:
> > 
> > QTimer::~QTimer ()
> > 
> > How can I translate this into Python?
> > 
> 
> Simple remove the reference to the QObject that is the parent
> of the QTimer. The following code removes the owning object
> after ten ticks:
> 
> 
> from qt import *
> import sys
> 
> class Q(QObject):
> 
>         def __init__(self):
>                 QObject.__init__(self)
>                 self.o=O(self)
>                 
>         def delete(self):
>                 self.o = None
> 
> class O(QObject):
> 
>         def __init__(self, parent):
>                 QObject.__init__(self)
>                 self.parent = parent
>                 self.i = 0
>                 self.t = QTimer(self)
>                 QObject.connect(self.t, SIGNAL("timeout()"), self.p)
>                 self.t.start(0, 0)
> 
>         def p(self):
>                 self.i += 1
>                 print "bla", self.i
>                 if self.i == 10:
>                         self.parent.delete()
> 
> q = Q()
> app=QApplication(sys.argv)
> app.exec_loop()

Thanks, that works fine, but it's not any different to what I was
doing, except that I had sub-classed the QTimer. Anyway, problem
solved.

Thanks

Garry