[PyQt] QVariant misunderstandings

[Phil Thompson]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:44:25 +0100, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com>
wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> I must say I have not quite followed up all the developments wrt
> QVariant. I'm using Python 2 and thus the QVariant v1 API.
> 
> Shouldn't the following work as intuitevely expected?
> 
>>>> from PyQt4.Qt import *
>>>> a = QString("ciao")
>>>> QVariant(a).toString()
> PyQt4.QtCore.QString(u'')
>>>> QVariant(a).type()
> 127
> 
> Why should a plain QString be inserted within the QVariant as a custom
> type?
> 
> I'm using SIP 4.9.3 and PyQt 4.6.2 (unless I've broken something with my
> internal merges).

That's the bug that was fixed with SIP 4.9.3.

You've either broken something or forgotten to rebuild PyQt.

Phil