[PyKDE] QObject.findChildren doesn't work as expected with QRegExp

[Phil Thompson]

On Friday 02 March 2007 2:53 am, Kerri Reno wrote:
> I have the following code:
>
> 	def testfindChildren(self):
> 		hLayout = QtGui.QHBoxLayout()
> 		hLayout.setObjectName('hLayout_0')
> 		self.searchLayout.addLayout(hLayout)
>
> 		print self.findChild(QtGui.QHBoxLayout,'hLayout_0')
> 		children = self.findChildren(QtGui.QHBoxLayout,QtCore.QRegExp('\w*'))
> 		for c in children:
> 			print c.objectName()
> 		print self.findChildren(QtGui.QHBoxLayout,QtCore.QRegExp('hLayout_\d'))
>
>
> that gives me the following output:
>
> <PyQt4.QtGui.QHBoxLayout object at 0x019F0B70>
> hLayout_0
>
> []
>
> The first line is returned from the findChild, the second (hLayout_0)
> and third (blank line) are returned from print c.objectName().
>
> The one I need, findChildren with a QRegex does not return hLayout_0 in
> the list.  Am I doing something wrong here?  Is this a bug?  I can't see
> anything in the docs that explains what's happening.

The escaping is certainly wrong - try using raw strings.

Otherwise post a complete example that demonstrates the problem.

Phil