[PyKDE] QString in PyQt4 - Request for Comments

[Phil Thompson]

I'm wondering whether QString should be dropped in PyQt4 in order to make it 
more Pythonic.

At the moment Python strings and unicode strings are automatically converted 
to QStrings when passed as arguments - so there would be no change there. If 
a QString was returned by a method or an operator then a unicode string would 
be returned instead.

Obviously you would lose all of QString's methods and would have to rely on 
what Python gives you for manipulating strings.

One of the limitations of QString has been that you couldn't do...

q = "Py" + QString("Qt")

...but with current snapshots you can - so this is an argument for keeping 
QString as it has become easier to use.

BTW, the following is a consequence of the additional support...

s = "Py"
# s is of type str
s += QString("Qt")
# s is now of type QString

Comments, opinions welcome.

Phil