[PyQt] pyuic : backslash escaping with untranslatable strings

[Mads Ipsen]

Mads Ipsen wrote:
> 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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Really sorry - forget the above reply - was meant for a different post.

Mads

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