[PyQt] how to covert an object text to string?

[Roberto Alsina]

klia writes:

> 
> hey guys
> 
> This is in Pyqt
> 
> I have this code
> 
> filename=os.path.basename(self.lwitem.text())
> 
> which self.lwitem.text() holds my filename path but i wanna convert it into
> a string how am i gonna do that??

You mean self.lwitem.text() is a QString and want to convert it to a string?

str(self.lwitem.text())

But you probably want to convert it to unicode instead using unicode()