Remove more Qt-dependent code, and also remove glue._deps which is no…

… longer really needed (pip freeze or conda list are usually sufficient) and also remove most of glue.main which concerned the Qt application

.gitignore

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ glue/_githash.py
 # Other
 .pylintrc
 *.ropeproject
-glue/qt/glue_qt_resources.py
 *.__junk*
 *.orig
 *~

.readthedocs.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ python:
       path: .
       extra_requirements:
         - docs
-        - qt
         - all
 
 formats: []

doc/conf.py

@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
     'astropy': ('https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/', None),
     'echo': ('https://echo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/', None),
     'pandas': ('https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/', None),
-    'PyQt5': ('https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt5/', None),
 }
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
@@ -125,27 +124,11 @@
 todo_include_todos = True
 autoclass_content = 'both'
 
-nitpick_ignore = [('py:obj', 'glue.viewers.common.qt.toolbar.BasicToolbar.insertAction'),
-                  ('py:obj', 'glue.viewers.common.qt.toolbar.BasicToolbar.setTabOrder'),
-                  ('py:class', 'glue.viewers.histogram.layer_artist.HistogramLayerBase'),
+nitpick_ignore = [('py:class', 'glue.viewers.histogram.layer_artist.HistogramLayerBase'),
                   ('py:class', 'glue.viewers.scatter.layer_artist.ScatterLayerBase'),
                   ('py:class', 'glue.viewers.image.layer_artist.ImageLayerBase'),
                   ('py:class', 'glue.viewers.image.layer_artist.RGBImageLayerBase'),
-                  ('py:class', 'glue.viewers.image.state.BaseImageLayerState'),
-                  ('py:class', 'glue.viewers.common.qt.toolbar.BasicToolbar'),
-                  ('py:class', 'glue.viewers.common.qt.base_widget.BaseQtViewerWidget'),
-                  ('py:class', 'sip.voidptr'),
-                  ('py:class', 'PyQt5.sip.voidptr'),
-                  ('py:class', 'PYQT_SLOT')]
-
-nitpick_ignore_regex = [('py:class', r'PyQt5\.QtCore\.Q[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+'),
-                        ('py:class', r'PyQt5\.QtWidgets\.Q[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+'),
-                        ('py:class', r'PyQt6\.QtCore\.Q[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+'),
-                        ('py:class', r'PyQt6\.QtWidgets\.Q[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+'),
-                        ('py:class', r'Qt\.[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+'),
-                        ('py:class', r'QPalette\.[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+'),
-                        ('py:class', r'QWidget\.[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+'),
-                        ('py:class', r'Q[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+')]
+                  ('py:class', 'glue.viewers.image.state.BaseImageLayerState')]
 
 viewcode_follow_imported_members = False
 

glue/__init__.py

@@ -33,17 +33,3 @@ def test(no_optional_skip=False):
 
 from glue._settings_helpers import load_settings
 load_settings()
-
-
-# In PyQt 5.5+, PyQt overrides the default exception catching and fatally
-# crashes the Qt application without printing out any details about the error.
-# Below we revert the exception hook to the original Python one. Note that we
-# can't just do sys.excepthook = sys.__excepthook__ otherwise PyQt will detect
-# the default excepthook is in place and override it.
-
-
-def handle_exception(exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback):
-    sys.__excepthook__(exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback)
-
-
-sys.excepthook = handle_exception

glue/conftest.py

@@ -76,13 +76,6 @@ def pytest_configure(config):
     load_plugins()
 
 
-def pytest_report_header(config):
-    from glue import __version__
-    glue_version = "%20s:\t%s" % ("glue", __version__)
-    from glue._deps import get_status
-    return os.linesep + glue_version + os.linesep + os.linesep + get_status()
-
-
 def pytest_unconfigure(config):
 
     os.environ.pop('GLUE_TESTING')