[PyKDE] QSettings.subkeyList not working?

[Phil Thompson]

On Saturday 09 November 2002 12:42 pm, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> Hi Phil et al.,
>
> while adopting QSettings for my hand rolled config stuff, I stumbled
> over the QSettings.subkeyList() not working as expected:
>
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>
> from qt import *
>
> program = 'test'
> company = 'whatever'
>
> qs = QSettings()
> qs.insertSearchPath(QSettings.Windows, "/%s" % company)
> path = "/%s" % (program)
> qs.writeEntry("%s/value" % path, "ok")
> qs.writeEntry("%s/value2" % path, "ok, too")
> qs.writeEntry("%s/list/test" % path, "not ok")
> qs.writeEntry("%s/list/test2" % path, "not ok, too")
>
> for k in qs.entryList("%s" % path):
>     print k, "=", qs.readEntry("%s/%s" % (path, k))[0]
>
> for k in qs.subkeyList("%s" % path):
>     for sk in qs.entryList("%s/%s" % (path, k)):
>         print k, sk, "=", qs.readEntry("%s/%s/%s" % (path, k, sk))[0]
>
> >8 >8 >8 >8 >8
>
> Qt doc says, entryList return all entries, which are not keys, while
> subkeyList return all keys. At least in my tests under X11/linux,
> subkeyList always return an empty list, but OTOH, they find their way
> into the config file ($HOME/.qt/testrc in this case).

In my testing subkeyList() is returning a list containing only "test". A C++ 
version does the same thing. I don't know whether it is a bug or a 
misunderstanding - but I don't think it is a PyQt problem.

Phil