[PyQt] QCryptographicHash.addData()

[Florian Bruhin]

* David Cortesi <davecortesi at gmail.com> [2015-02-24 12:32:38 -0800]:
> Per the docs[1] QCryptographicHash is supposed to support a method
> addData(const char * data, int len) but it seems not to.
> 
> from PyQt5.QtCore import QCryptographicHash
> > blendr = QCryptographicHash(QCryptographicHash.Sha1)
> > blendr.addData('str',3)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<string>", line 1, in <fragment>
> > builtins.TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
> >   QCryptographicHash.addData(str): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'
> >   QCryptographicHash.addData(QByteArray): too many arguments
> >   QCryptographicHash.addData(QIODevice): argument 1 has unexpected type
> > 'str'
> >
> 
> Perhaps this would not be very useful anyway; "const char *" probably means
> "C bytestring" not "Python 3 str".

Yeah - this indeed doesn't make sense from the Python point of view.

> Also the one-arg method addData(const QByteArray data) seems to be encoding
> a string arg to bytearray using the 'Latin-1' encoding,
> 
> blendr.addData('αβγ')
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<string>", line 1, in <fragment>
> > builtins.UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in
> > position 0-2: ordinal not in range(256)
> >
> 
> This seems curious because in Python3 the default for str.encode() is
> supposedly 'UTF-8'.

I've brought this point up in October:
http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2014-October/034903.html

This behaviour is now marked with a DeprecationWarning in PyQt 5.4 -
so probably with 5.5 or so QByteArray will only accept bytes objects,
and not strings - just like python3 handles bytes/strings too.

Florian

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