[PyQt] List-like objects and QVariant

[Sybren A. Stüvel]

Hi all,

This is my first post to this list. I'm a software engineer at Chess in 
Haarlem, The Netherlands, and I'm using PyQt to develop a testing application. 

We created a TestSuite class that contains a filename and an ordered 
dictionary of TestCase objects The TestSuite class implements the __getitem__ 
method to get a test case by either its ID or its index number. It also 
implements the __len__ method to return the number of test cases stored.

We're unable to store such a TestSuite object in a QVariant object. QVariant 
seems to think that __len__ + __getitem__ equals "list", so the TestSuite 
object is converted into a list of TestCases. This means that nearly all 
information stored in TestSuite is lost when storing it in a QVariant.

I've included a minimal example that illustrates the problem:

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import unittest
from PyQt4 import QtCore

class ClassUnderTest(object):
    '''This is a class that looks like a list, but isn't.'''

    def __init__(self, mylist=None):
        self.mylist = mylist or []

    def __getitem__(self, index):
        return self.mylist[index]

    def __len__(self):
        return len(self.mylist)

    def __eq__(self, other):
        return self.__class__ == other.__class__  and \
               self.mylist == other.mylist

class QVariantTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_store_restore(self):

        # Create a ClassUnderTest instance.
        original_object = ClassUnderTest([1, 2, 3, 4])

        # Save in a QVariant and retrieve it again.
        variant = QtCore.QVariant(original_object)
        pyobj = variant.toPyObject()

        # Verify that they are the same.
        self.assertEqual(pyobj, original_object)
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I hope you can help me to fix this issue.

Regards,
-- 
Sybren A. Stüvel

sybren at stuvel.eu
http://stuvel.eu/
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