advice on programming style: is multiple inheritance bad?

[Michael Hudson]

Uwe Mayer <merkosh at hadiko.de> writes:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
> 
> > Uwe Mayer <merkosh at hadiko.de> writes:
> > 
> >> BTW: when doing m.i. you can't mix new-style and old-style objects, or
> >> else Python exits with a Segmentation Fault. :)
> > 
> > Uhh, really?  Example please.
> 
> Seems only to occur in connection with Qt. :( 

Ah, good, not a problem I can fix <wink>.

> Code as the one below, inheriting from some Qt Widget and using
> m.i. with new-style classes cause a Segmentation Fault on my
> machine:

Weird.  I take it you've reported this to the PyQT folks?

Cheers,
mwh

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