[PyQt] Construct QVariant from object of user type

[Arve Knudsen]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Phil Thompson
<phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday 25 April 2008, Arve Knudsen wrote:
>  > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Phil Thompson
>  >
>  > <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>  > > Tonight's PyQt snapshot will have some support for storing a Python
>  > > object in a QVariant so the following code works...
>  > >
>  > >  from PyQt4.QtCore import QVariant
>  > >
>  > >  class Klass(object): pass
>  > >
>  > >  k = Klass()
>  > >  v = QVariant(k)
>  > >  v1 = QVariant(v)
>  > >  assert v1.toPyObject() is k
>  > >
>  > >  Let me know if more is needed.
>  >
>  > I'm missing a way to specify the QVariant::Type for such an object.
>
>  Why would you want to give each Python type a different metatype?

Because of my original case, to be able to work with
QItemEditorFactory, which parameterizes on QVariant::Type (see
QItemEditorFactory::registerEditor).

Arve