[PyKDE] unicode two-way conversion

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:39, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> > Ah, that helps the problem in my test script. Now I'm encountering a
> > problem encoding the input of a QLineedit:
> >
> >   File "john.py", line 154, in dataFromGuiToUser
> >     self.user.data["achternaam"] =
> > self.GAchternaam.text().encode('utf-8', 'strict')
> > AttributeError: encode
>
> text() returns a QString, which you should look up in the
> qt-reference-manual. That reveals the method
>
> QString::utf8()
>
> which returns a QCString. And that should be converted to a python byte
> string (by means of sip I think)

That doesn't seem to be the case, it's a QCString at that point.

> Then you need to _decode_ it as utf-8 to yield a unicode object. So the
> whole line should read
>
> self.user.data["achternaam"] =
> self.GAchternaam.text().utf8().decode('utf-8')

That throws me an AttributeError on encode().

However, if I use ascii(), it seems to work fine both ways:

self.GAchternaam.text().ascii()

Thanks for helping with that!
-- 
sebas

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