[PyQt] Is the result of SIGNAL() a constant?

[Henrik Pauli]

On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Aaron Digulla wrote:
> >
> > type(SIGNAL('')) would show that it is just a string.
>
> That confuses me a bit because when I try to pass a string as the
> second argument to connect, I get "argument 2 has a wrong type" :)
>
> But anyway: How much work would it be to have SIP generate constants
> for all SIGNAL's in a class? So I could say:
>
>      self.connect(w1, w1.SOME_SIGNAL, ...)
>
> Pro: Doesn't break old code, API, etc. No more typos (or python will
> warn about a missing attribute) and PyDev could offer auto-completion
> for signals, too!
>

Contra: doesn’t look like Qt at all, and it’d be rather hard to know just what 
to call different signals — especially ones sharing a name but differing in 
signature.