[PyKDE] Re: QString vs PyString

[Matej Cepl]

James Emerton wrote:
> This all leads me to thinking about the strategies used whenan API
> targeting one language is wrapped for some other language with
> different idioms and culture.  In many cases, utility types (such as
> QString, QDate[Time]) have fully capable couterparts native to the
> environment in which the developer is using.  What is the advantage to
> wrapping these types, as opposed to mapping them to native types?

And why do you have to use QString at all? Cannot you just use Python's
native strings/unicode strings? Read more about the relationship between
Python's and Qt-string machinery read
        http://www.opendocs.org/pyqt/index.lxp?lxpwrap=c2029%2ehtm

Best,

        Matej

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