PyQt requires a "Mandatory" 'from qt import *' ...?

[Alex Martelli]

Studying PyQt (latest releases of everything), I started noticing 
segmentation faults as I quit my application and eventually whittled it 
down back to...:

#!/usr/bin/env python2.2

import sys
import qt
# from qt import *

class MyWidget(qt.QWidget):

    def __init__(self, parent=None, name=None):
        qt.QWidget.__init__(self, parent, name)

        self.quit = quit = qt.QPushButton("Quit", self, "quit")
        self.connect(quit, qt.SIGNAL("clicked()"), qt.qApp, 
qt.SLOT("quit()"))


a = qt.QApplication(sys.argv)

w = MyWidget()
a.setMainWidget(w)
w.show()
a.exec_loop()


With the latest releases of Qt / sip / PyQt and Python, this gives me a 
Segmentation Fault (Mandrake 8.1, btw) as I hit the Quit button.  No
fault if I kill the app with the cross in the upper right corner (KDE).

BUT -- if I uncomment the "from qt import *" (of which I shouldn't
be using any part, as I loathe said usage)... the Segmentation
Fault goes away!

I'm a bit puzzled -- there must be something strange in the order of
finalization going on.  I can't believe I have to "import *" to make
my applications terminate gracefully -- perhaps just one or two
things from the qt module might suffice?

If anybody has more insight or can suggest more graceful workarounds,
please let me know!


Alex