[PyQt] pyuic : backslash escaping with untranslatable strings

[Mads Ipsen]

Felix Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> I got the following bug (or Feature?) in pyuic :
>
> With Qt Designer I created a QLineEdit with inputMask set to 
> "\0\x>HHHH;_" (to input a hex-value like "0x12AB").
> So far it's fine.
> But when I uncheck the "translatable" flag of this inputMask (don't 
> want it to be translated in any language),
> pyuic doesn't escape the backslashes anymore.
> I get a "ValueError: invalid \x escape" on line
> > self.linHexcode.setInputMask("\0\x>HHHH;_")
>
> With the translatable Flag set again, pyuic correctly generates a
> > 
> self.linHexcode.setInputMask(QtGui.QApplication.translate("AddSlaveDialog", 
> "\\0\\x>HHHH;_", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
>
> With other string properties (instead of "inputMask") it's the same 
> thing.
>
> Is there any way to get this fixed? (Of course, i can just ignore this 
> string in Linguist, but its not the neat solution. Manually escape the 
> string in Qt Designer isn't either.)
>
> Thanks,
> Felix Schmidt
>
> Versions:
> Python 2.6
> Qt 4.5.3
> PyQt 4.6
> sip 4.9
>
>
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Things is:

It fails on Ubuntu 8.04, KUbuntu 9.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 with Qt 4.5.2.

But it works on Mac OS X with Qt 4.6.0-beta and XPSP3 with Qt 4.3.3. I 
believe its a Qt bug.

Mads






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