[PyQt] QSettings.value() returns string instead of bool

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 06.03.11 13:23:53, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:49:16 +0100, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm using sip API v2 for QVariant here and using
> > QSettings.setValue/value does not work correctly for booleans. See the
> > attached two scripts. In write.py everything looks good, I can store and
> > get back a Python boolean. But running read.py which only reads from the
> > QSettings object always returns a string instead of a boolean value. It
> > almost looks like the wrong QSettings overload is being called...
> > 
> > My versions are:
> > Qt4: 4.7.1
> > PyQt4: 4.7.3
> > Python: 2.6.6
> > Sip: 4.10.2
> > 
> > Is this something thats fixed in newer PyQt4 versions maybe?
> 
> See...
> 
> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/python_v3.html#qsettings

Thanks, I should pay more attention to the PyQt docs :)

Andreas