Configuring PyQt across unit-tests

We had some problems with configuring the PyQt API version across unit-tests. The problems arise because several modules try to call sip.setapi, which you can only do once (even if you call it with the same args, which ought to be idempotent, you'd think.)

Anyway, what I did was to create a module called 'pyqtconfig' with the following contents:


import sip
sip.setapi('QString', 2)
sip.setapi('QVariant', 2)
sip.setapi('QTextStream', 2)


import PyQt4.Qt
Qt = PyQt4.Qt

Then I simply do 'from pyqtconfig import Qt' in each module. Works like a charm.

(If you want to import each module separately, you need to adapt the above code somewhat. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. :)