[PyKDE] QInputDialog.getText and QLineEdit.Password

[Phil Thompson]

Eli Carter wrote:
> 
> Phil Thompson wrote:
> > Eli Carter wrote:
> >
> >>I found a post on this question here:
> >>http://mats.gmd.de/pipermail/pykde/2001-May/001050.html
> >>
> >>I seem to have the same problem using this:
> >>QInputDialog.getText( 'Sensitive Data', 'Password:', QLineEdit.Password )
> >>I'm getting this:
> >>TypeError: Argument 3 of QInputDialog.getText() has an invalid type
> >>
> >>I'm using python + Qt from RedHat 7.2.  Is that bug present in that
> >>version, or am I doing something wrong?
> >>If it's a bug, is there a work-around I can use?
> >
> >
> > What versions are bundled with RedHat? Are they still on Python 1.5.2?
> >
> > I would have hoped that a bug reported a year ago would have been fixed
> > by now.
> 
> Thanks for the reply. :)
> 
> Python 1.5.2-35 and PyQt 2.4-1
> Hmm.. the build date for PyQt is Jul 2001, so they had a month I guess...
> so it probably is the same problem.  I didn't find an updated rpm for
> RedHat.
> Do you have a workaround (i.e. doesn't require changing the installed
> version)?

The problem (now that I've looked it up) was that one of the getText()
variants was simply missing. So the workaround is not to use that
variant.

Phil