[PyKDE] pyuic escaping apostrophes

Phil Thompson phil at river-bank.demon.co.uk
Mon Jun 18 18:50:37 BST 2001


Hollis wrote:
> 
> Small pyuic bug report...
> 
> When using a tooltip string like
>         <string>it's the button</string>
> pyuic will not escape the apostrophe, so the python result is
>         ...( self.tr('it's the button') )
> which doesn't compile. If I add a backslash
>         <string>it\'s the button</string>
> then the backslash IS escaped
>         ...( self.tr('it\\'s the button') )
> which leaves me with the same problem as before.
> 
> The summary is that you can't use apostrophes in Designer, at least not in
> tooltips (haven't checked elsewhere). Could they be escaped like backslashes?

Which version? It should have been fixed in the v2.5pre series.

Phil




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