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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Simple Qt4 example to manually test event loop integration.
+
+This is meant to run tests manually in ipython as:
+
+In [5]: %gui qt
+
+In [6]: %run gui-qt.py
+
+Ref: Modified from http://zetcode.com/tutorials/pyqt4/firstprograms/
+"""
+
+import sys
+from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
+
+class SimpleWindow(QtGui.QWidget):
+    def __init__(self, parent=None):
+        QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent)
+
+        self.setGeometry(300, 300, 200, 80)
+        self.setWindowTitle('Hello World')
+
+        quit = QtGui.QPushButton('Close', self)
+        quit.setGeometry(10, 10, 60, 35)
+
+        self.connect(quit, QtCore.SIGNAL('clicked()'),
+                     self, QtCore.SLOT('close()'))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    app = QtCore.QCoreApplication.instance()
+    if app is None:
+        app = QtGui.QApplication([])
+
+    sw = SimpleWindow()
+    sw.show()
+
+    app.exec_()