[PyQt] PyQt4 and Python 3.0

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Mark Summerfield <mark at qtrac.eu> wrote:
> 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.
>


Is there any reasonable expectation of a pyqt* class in the core library?


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