[PyQt] PyQt4 and Python 3.0

[Mark Summerfield]

On 2008-10-03, Paul A. Giannaros wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Mark Summerfield <mark at qtrac.eu> wrote:
> > On 2008-10-03, Phil Thompson wrote:
> >> On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:11:19 +0200, Detlev Offenbach
> >
> > Here's my personal "wish list" for Python 3/PyQt4 (including those that
> > Phil is going to do as he says above):
> >
> > - No QString, only str, plus some static functions for things that str
> >  doesn't provide, e.g., QString.simplified(s : str) -> str
> > - No QByteArray, only bytes (or bytearray)
> > - No QVariant, only object
> > - Guarantee that "from PyQt4.QtGui import *" and similar will only
> >  import objects whose name begins with capital Q.
>
> That'd be cool. An alternative that I think would be even better
> would be to provide a "Qt" namespace as per QtRuby and drop the
> Q prefix from the classes, so Qt.Application, Qt.Widget, &c.
> That'd dodge the ugly namespace pollution while not causing
> much more typing.

I like that:-)

But how do we then distinguish QtGui.QApplication from
QtCore.QApplication? (Or does that even matter?)

But I'm not keen on pyqt4 and other lowercase names as Daniel suggested.
IMO lowercase is for Python's standard packages; I think mixed cased is
best for own and third party to help avoid clashes.

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