[PyKDE] QString in PyQt4 - Request for Comments

[Roberto Alsina]

El Martes 18 Octubre 2005 18:59, Yann Cointepas escribió:
> If it means that the too few people that may care about the copy cost
> should be ignored then QString can be dropped. However, there is a simple
> case where the copy can be a problem. I use QTextEdit in a kind of log
> system (adding text line by line). If QString is dropped, textEdit.setText(
> textEdit.text() + newLine ) will copy the text twice. For big text, it
> could be a problem. I am not a QString protector (I also had some problems
> with it at the begining) but I say we should think twice before removing
> it.

You really should use append() instead of setText(). It's faster than what you 
are doing now, even if you pass it a python string :-)
   
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