pywebkitgtk crashes python if gtk.gdk.threads_init() is not called

[Mariano Guerra]

I wanted to see the docs of webkit so I started an interactive shell:

mariano@ganesha:~$ python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Nov 2 2009, 14:38:03)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import webkit
>>> help(webkit)

GLib-ERROR **: The thread system is not yet initialized.
aborting...
Cancelado

woops, not good, then I read about the thread system not initialized and tried:

mariano@ganesha:~$ python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Nov 2 2009, 14:38:03)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import gtk
>>> import webkit
>>> gtk.gdk.threads_init()
>>> help(webkit)

and it worked like a charm.

I thought that if webkit depends on the thread system being initialized then it should initialize it by itself, I went to the upstream repo and I found this:

http://code.google.com/p/pywebkitgtk/source/browse/trunk/webkit/webkitmodule.c#46

yep, they are initializing the thread system, now, what about ubuntu?

apt-get source python-webkit
tar -xzf pywebkitgtk_1.1.5.orig.tar.gz
vim pywebkitgtk-1.1.5/webkit/webkitmodule.c

nope, they are not doing those two lines...

recommendation: add those two lines :)

more info:

Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

$ apt-cache policy python-webkit
python-webkit:
  Instalados: 1.1.5-1
  Candidato: 1.1.5-1
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 1.1.5-1 0
        500 http://ar.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Mariano Guerra (luismarianoguerra)]

may I say that this also affects a software that doesn't do the inicialization, that also affect pylint (that crashes) and the documentation of the module.

PS: bump?