[PyKDE] QString in PyQt4 - Request for Comments

[Phil Thompson]

On Wednesday 19 October 2005 8:09 pm, John Layt wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:17, David Boddie wrote:
> > I think that there are two groups of people who expect different things,
> > and QString is possibly controversial to many people because it's
> > peculiar to see a class that duplicates the functionality of a built-in
> > type. However, I think that there's an advantage in being able to write
> > code in Python that resembles what you would write in C++. This applies
> > to other classes that would appear to duplicate Python built-in types.
>
> Being a newb here, I could be way off base, but one of the selling points I
> keep reading for using PyQt and PyKDE are for rapid prototyping apps that
> later get converted to C++.  Would getting rid of QStrings not impose a
> greater conversion burden on these people and thus alienate them?

As I've said, I have made that selling point many times - mainly as a sop to 
C++ programmers and avoid religious my-language-is-better-than-yours 
arguments.  However, I don't know of anybody who has actually done it.

Phil