<p><font>I'm doing some very simple PySide (and PyQt) tutorials in iPython.
One tutorial just creates a window with some sliders to demonstrate
slots and signals.</font></p>
<p><font>When I close the window of the running demo application, I see this error:</font></p><pre><code>An exception has occurred, use %tb to see the full traceback.
SystemExit: 0
To exit: use 'exit', 'quit', or Ctrl-D.
</code></pre>
<p><font>So I run %tb and get this:</font></p>
<pre><code>SystemExit Traceback (most recent call last)
/Workspaces/scratch/<ipython-input-1-88966dcfb499> in <module>()
33
34 if __name__ == "__main__":
---> 35 main()
/Workspaces/scratch/<ipython-input-1-88966dcfb499> in main()
29 w.show()
30 app.exec_()
---> 31 sys.exit(0)
32
33
SystemExit: 0
</code></pre>
<p><font>If I try to execute my code again, I get this:</font></p>
<pre><code>RuntimeError: A QApplication instance already exists.
</code></pre>
<p>In case it helps, here my code:</p>
<pre><code>from PySide.QtCore import *
from PySide.QtGui import *
import sys
class MyWindow(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
QWidget.__init__(self, None)
vbox = QVBoxLayout(self)
self.slider1 = QSlider(Qt.Horizontal)
self.slider1.setRange(0, 99)
self.slider1.setValue(0)
vbox.addWidget(self.slider1)
self.slider2 = QSlider(Qt.Horizontal)
self.slider2.setRange(0, 99)
self.slider2.setValue(99)
vbox.addWidget(self.slider2)
self.slider1.valueChanged.connect(self.slider2Changed)
def slider2Changed(self, position):
self.slider2.setValue(self.slider2.maximum() - position)
def main():
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
w = MyWindow()
w.show()
app.exec_()
sys.exit(0)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
</code></pre>
<p><font>I do not have errors when running the code using python:</font></p>
<pre><code>python myexample.py
</code></pre>
<p><font>This error only happens when I run the code in an iPython (including a
notebook or the qtconsole or the regular ipython terminal).</font></p>