PySide wait for signal from main thread in a worker thread

Question

I decided to add a GUI to one of my scripts. The script is a simple web scraper. I decided to use a worker thread as downloading and parsing the data can take a while. I dec

Answer 1

The slot is executed inside the thread which created the QThread, and not in the thread that the QThread controls.

You need to move a QObject to the thread and connect its slot to the signal, and that slot will be executed inside the thread:

class SignalReceiver(QtCore.QObject):
    def __init__(self):
        self.eventLoop = QEventLoop(self)             

    @PySide.QtCore.Slot(str)
    def stop_waiting(self, text):                   
        self.text = text
        eventLoop.exit()

    def wait_for_input(self):
        eventLoop.exec()
        return self.text

class MainWindow(...):
     ...
     def __init__(self):
        ...
        self.helper_signal.connect(self.worker.signalReceiver.stop_waiting)

class WorkerThread(PySide.QtCore.QThread): 
    def __init__(self):
        self.signalReceiver = SignalReceiver() 
        # After the following call the slots will be executed in the thread             
        self.signalReceiver.moveToThread(self)    

    def get(self,  *args, **kwargs):
        result = requests.get(*args, **kwargs)
        while result.history:
            ...
            self.result = self.signalReceiver.wait_for_input()