[PyKDE] QString in PyQt4 - Request for Comments

[Gilbert Ramirez]

On 10/21/05, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm totally unsympathetic to the idea of a *separate* Pythonic API to Qt.
> The Python GUI toolkit "market" is fragmented enough as it is - this would
> only add more confusion for (relatively) little benefit.
>
> People come to PyQt either as existing Python programmers looking for a
> decent toolkit, or Qt/KDE programmers looking for a decent programming
> language. I think the former is a larger group than the latter and this
> difference will only become more pronounced with the Windows GPL version.
>
> I'm completely open to making the existing API more Pythonic - this is the
> time to do it. For example, I did casually float the idea of not using C++
> types in signal signatures in a previous post - but nobody bit.
>
> Phil
>


For me, one of the strong points of Qt is that the documentation for
it is great. Although the documention is for C++, it's still a handy
reference for PyQT programmers because the mapping from Qt/C++ to PyQt
is almost always straightforward. I'd like to keep the
non-straight-forward mappings in the documentation to a minimum,
because no one is going to do as good of a job as writing
documentation for an API that is very different from Qt's.

--gilbert