[vtk-developers] Adding PySide compatibility to python binding

[David Gobbi]

I looked at your new patch and I think it has a typo... did you test it?

 - David


On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:40 PM, HadiM <marelo64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here you are the new patch. This new way is much cleaner :-).
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> Hope it will be helpful.
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> --
> Hadrien Mary
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> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:06 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Hadrien,
>>
>> The way the try/except is written, it will always complain about not
>> finding PySide even if the user expected it to be looking for PyQt.
>> Can you modify the patch so that it will report the error as
>> "ImportError: Cannot load either PyQt or PySide"?  This can be
>> done by adding another try-except around the second import and
>> then re-throwing the exception (there's probably a tidier way to do it,
>> but the main thing is to make the error less confusing).
>>
>>  - David
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>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:26 PM, HadiM <marelo64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I would like to notice you than VTK python binding works very well
>>> with PySide (http://www.pyside.org/). Unfortunately, VTK binding try
>>> only to import PyQt in
>>> ./Wrapping/Python/vtk/qt4/QVTKRenderWindowInteractor.py.
>>>
>>> So I made a little patch, which when PyQt module import failed, it's
>>> try to import PySide module. It's probably not very clean to do it
>>> that way but it works... If you dont want to integrate this patch in
>>> next release, do you know when the PySide compatibility is planned ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Hadrien Mary
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