[PyQt] findChildren(): default for type?

[Phil Thompson]

On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:11:30 +0100, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> any reason why findChild() / findChildren() don't support a default for
the
> "type" argument (which would be QObject of course) like they do in C++?

As they are template methods don't you always have to specify the type from
C++?

> In
> PyQt I'm always forced to write code like this:
> 
>   groupBox.findChild(QWidget, "theLabel")
> 
> instead of:
> 
>   groupBox.findChild("theLabel")
> 
> I believe this could be done in a fully backward compatible way, right?
If
> so, we can prepare a patch.

The obvious way is to just add an extra overload for each that doesn't take
the type argument. Is that what you were thinking?

Phil