Probe QtWidgets, not QtCore: the qt backend needs the full GUI stack

QtCore's libraries (glib, icu) can load while QtWidgets/QtGui still
miss libGL - matplotlib's qt backend imports all three, so the old
probe could promise QtAgg and lose even the error figure at
switch_backend, one library layer deeper than the NixOS fix. The
regression test's mock now mirrors the real failure (bare package and
QtCore import fine, GUI modules raise): both the bare-import and the
QtCore-probe variants now fail it, verified by mutation. Also drop two
redundant f-prefixes on placeholder-less strings in report.py.
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commit de7a4f8641
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@@ -26,14 +26,18 @@ def _pick_backend():
("Cannot load backend 'TkAgg' ... as 'qt' is currently running") -
exactly what happened on macOS, whose bundled Python ships tkinter.
The probe must import the binding's native core, not just the
package: on NixOS `import PySide6` succeeds (pure __init__) while
QtCore's .so cannot find the system libraries pip wheels expect
("libgthread-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file") - promising
QtAgg then kills even the error figure at switch_backend time."""
The probe must import QtWidgets, not just the package or QtCore:
on NixOS `import PySide6` succeeds (pure __init__) while QtCore's
.so cannot find the system libraries pip wheels expect
("libgthread-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file"), and on a
partially provisioned system QtCore's deps (glib, icu) can be
present while QtWidgets/QtGui still miss libGL/libEGL. matplotlib's
qt backend imports QtCore, QtGui and QtWidgets, so probe the widest
one - promising QtAgg then kills even the error figure at
switch_backend time."""
for qt in ("PySide6", "PyQt6", "PyQt5", "PySide2"):
try:
__import__(qt + ".QtCore")
__import__(qt + ".QtWidgets")
return "QtAgg" if qt in ("PySide6", "PyQt6") else "Qt5Agg"
except Exception:
continue