[PyQt] PyQt 4.6 QClipboard bug?

[Phil Thompson]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:11:45 -0400, Doug Bell <dougb at bellz.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In previous PyQt versions,  the QClipboard.text() method accepted a
> Python string as an argument:
> 
>    QtGui.QApplication.clipboard().text('xml')
> 
> With PyQt 4.6, this throws an exception:
> 
>    TypeError: argument 1 of QClipboard.text() has an invalid type
> 
> But it seems to work OK with a QString as an argument:
> 
>    QtGui.QApplication.clipboard().text(QtCore.QString('xml'))
> 
> Is this a bug in 4.6?

I'd call it a mis-guided bug fix. The method makes use of QString's
mutability, so allowing an ordinary (immutable) string appeared to be a
bug. However the string is only updated if passed an empty string, so your
usage (with hindsight) is perfectly reasonable.

Reverted in the next snapshot.

Phil