[PyKDE] Converting QStrings to Python strings

[Phil Thompson]

Janos Blazi wrote:
> 
> I thought that PyQt would convert QStrings to Python strings automatically,
> but this seems not to be true:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> import sys
> from qt import *
> 
> app=QApplication(sys.argv)
> vbox=QVBox()
> 
> edit=QLineEdit(vbox)
> ok=QPushButton('Finish',vbox)
> QObject.connect(ok,SIGNAL("clicked()"),app,SLOT("quit()"))
> vbox.show()
> 
> app.exec_loop()
> print int(edit.text())
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> In this code I read a string from a QLineEdit and try to convert it to an
> integer but this is not possible as the return value edit.text() is a QString.
> (I also get a segmentation fault, who knows, why?)
> 
> So how can I convert the QString to a Python string?

Read the section in the documentation called "Python Strings, Qt Strings
and Unicode".

Phil