[PyKDE] QString conversion?

[Ted Parnefors]

Is there really no other way than the following to convert a QString to
a string in the system locale?

import locale
from qt import *
syslocale=locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
myqstring=QString(u'åäö')
mystring=eval(repr(myqstring)).encode(syslocale)

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 Ted Parnefors <ted at mtv.se>, KeyID 0x6627DEE4
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