From pykde  Sun Apr 21 08:52:07 2024
From: Phil Thompson <phil () riverbankcomputing ! com>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 08:52:07 +0000
To: pykde
Subject: Re: please take a look at the pdf
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On 21/04/2024 01:47, Mel Tearle wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> I  wrote a few days ago about a problem running PyQt6 on an M1 mac.
> I’ve ruled out vscode as it happens even if run from the command line.
> 
> I thought that maybe if I caused a type error in pygame,  which only 
> runs
> in Rosetta, I’d see a similar result but I didn’t.
> 
> Inclosed is the relevant portion of the last crash report.  I can
> follow it enough
> starting at line 10 to see that Qt is calling the shots, line 7 we
> have fatal message logger,
> and at line 4 a qAbort.
> 
> That’s kinda of harsh for a type error.  Another possibility could be 
> malware,
> but why PyQt?
> 
> I scrubbed python off my mac and reinstalled 3.11.7 and PyQt6, again -
> didn’t work.
> I was looking for an 6.5 .whl that I might try but maybe I missed them.
> 
> I’ve been programming in PyQt since around 2019 . I hate to have to
> stop because of a bug.
> 
> I would really liked to hear your take on this.
> 
> Yours truly,
> 
> Mel Tearle

This is the expected behaviour. You have a Python exception in the 
Python reimplementation of a C++ virtual. PyQt will display the 
exception and then call Qt's qFatal() to make sure the programmer is 
aware of the bug. If you want to handle this more gracefully then use 
sys.excepthook.

Phil