[PyQt] QString rfind exception in uic.loadUi

[Phil Thompson]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:23:52 +0300, Gökçen Eraslan <gokcen at pardus.org.tr>
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I run this code:
> 
> from PyQt4 import uic
> from PyQt4.QtCore import QString
> uic.loadUi(QString("notexists.ui"))
> 
> in sip 4.10.2 and PyQt 4.7.3, I'm getting 
> 
> -----------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ...
> ...
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
> PyQt4.QtCore.QString(u'notexists.ui')
> -----------------
> 
> as usual but in sip 4.11.1 and PyQt 4.7.6, I'm getting:
> 
> -----------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "uicexample.py", line 7, in <module>
>     uic.loadUi(QString("notexists.ui"))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyQt4/uic/__init__.py", line
182,
>   in
> loadUi
>     return DynamicUILoader().loadUi(uifile, baseinstance)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyQt4/uic/Loader/loader.py",
line
>   24,
> in loadUi
>     return self.parse(filename, os.path.dirname(filename))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 119, in dirname
>     i = p.rfind('/') + 1
> AttributeError: 'QString' object has no attribute 'rfind'
> -----------------
> 
> Any ideas about that?

Strictly speaking loadUi() isn't defined as accepting a QString filename,
but it is a change of behaviour.

Should be fixed in tonight's snapshot.

Phil