[PyQt] Error when converting QVariant back to Python object

[Phil Thompson]

On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:25:08 +0100, Baz Walter <bazwal at ftml.net> wrote:
> On 03/06/10 16:01, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 May 2010 19:46:58 +0100, Baz Walter<bazwal at ftml.net>  wrote:
>>> looks like i spoke too soon: i now get segfaults when trying to emit
>>> signals that send char *.
>>>
>>> the particular signal that caused the crash was "propertyChanged(const
>>> char *prop, const char *val)" in QsciLexer. i have been using this
>>> signal for a long time previously without any problems.
>>
>> Should be fixed in tonight's PyQt snapshot. You will also need tonight's
>> QScintilla snapshot.
>>
>> SCN_MODIFIED should now provide a more sensible text argument.
> 
> sorry to say the new snapshots don't work for me.
> 
> i've narrowed the problem down to this:
> 
>  >>> from PyQt4 import QtGui, Qsci
>  >>> a = QtGui.QApplication([])
>  >>> s = Qsci.QsciScintilla()
>  >>> s.SendScintilla(s.SCI_SETUNDOCOLLECTION, 0)
>  >>> s.setText('foo')
> Segmentation fault
> 
> this is using:
> 
> gcc 4.4.1, python 2.6.5, qt 4.6.2, sip snapshot-4.10.3-f292793d6c99, 
> pyqt snapshot-4.7.4-36c5fbec9a15, qsci snapshot-2.4.4-90e3461f410f

Hopefully fixed in tonight's QScintilla snapshot.

Phil