I am wondering how I can go about stopping a dialog from opening if certain conditions are met in its __init__ statement.

The following code tries to call the 'self.close()' function and it does, but (I'm assuming) since the dialog has not yet started its event loop, that it doesn't trigger the close event? So is there another way to close and/or stop the dialog from opening without triggering an event?

Example code:

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

class dlg_closeInit(QtGui.QDialog):
    '''
    Close the dialog if a certain condition is met in the __init__ statement
    '''
    def __init__(self):
        QtGui.QDialog.__init__(self)
        self.txt_mytext = QtGui.QLineEdit('some text')
        self.btn_accept = QtGui.QPushButton('Accept')

        self.myLayout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self)
        self.myLayout.addWidget(self.txt_mytext)
        self.myLayout.addWidget(self.btn_accept)        

        self.setLayout(self.myLayout)
        # Connect the button
        self.connect(self.btn_accept,QtCore.SIGNAL('clicked()'), self.on_accept)
        self.close()

    def on_accept(self):
        # Get the data...
        self.mydata = self.txt_mytext.text()
        self.accept() 

    def get_data(self):
            return self.mydata

    def closeEvent(self, event):
        print 'Closing...'


if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    dialog = dlg_closeInit()
    if dialog.exec_():
        print dialog.get_data()
    else:
        print "Failed"