Bug report

Bug summary

See title.

Code for reproduction

In a clean venv with matplotlib (HEAD) installed and no qt binding installed, import matplotlib.backends.qt_compat.

Actual outcome

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/antony/src/extern/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backends/qt_compat.py", line 197, in <module>
    QtCore.Signal = QtCore.pyqtSignal
NameError: name 'QtCore' is not defined

Expected outcome

An ImportError.

Matplotlib version

• Operating system:
• Matplotlib version: master
• Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())):
• Python version:
• Jupyter version (if applicable):
• Other libraries:

Introduced by #11500 (I think).
#9993 fixes the issue and is ready to go.