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[docs]def safe_delete_later(widget):
"""
Will call the deleteLater method on the given widget, but only if
running in a Qt4 environment. This allows us to proactively delete
widgets in Qt4, but protects us from garbage collection issues
associated with doing the same in PySide2/Qt5.
:param widget: The widget to potentially call deleteLater on.
"""
from sgtk.platform.qt import QtCore
if QtCore.__version__.startswith("4."):
widget.deleteLater()