[IPython-dev] pyside, pyqt import testing question

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 3 May 2012 21:14, Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
> external/qt.py only checks if import PySide succeeds and the fixes
> itself to that, even if PySide turns out to be incomplete later and pyqt
> would available as a fallback.
>
> Why is the check split up into two parts like that?
> Would there be any issues in making a complete PySide import test before
> settling on it?

I think it makes sense to fix it in IPython so it checks for all the
parts it needs, and I don't think that would cause any problems. I
guess when it was written, we hadn't considered the possibility of
PySide being partially installed.

Thomas