[PyQt] Getting a list of virtual PyQt functions

[Phil Thompson]

On 16/07/2015 10:49 am, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I recently found out about vulture[1], which is a static checker to
> find dead Python code, among other things it finds methods which never
> are called.
> 
> However, it (naturally) doesn't detect when I'm overriding a virtual
> Qt function, as that's never called *from Python*.
> 
> I opened an issue [2] and we agreed it'd be a good idea to add a
> whitelist for all virtual PyQt methods.
> 
> Of course maintaining such a whitelist by hand is not something I want
> to do, so I looked into sip and how it could help me.
> 
> I found out about the XML export (-m), and have two questions about
> it:
> 
> - Is there a reason it's not documented at [3]?
> 
> - Would a patch adding a 'virtual="true"' attribute to function tags
>   if isVirtual() is true be appreciated?

It's not documented because it's not supported. I plan to support it 
(or, more likely, something similar) for sip5.

I would accept a patch because that is useful information to the Python 
programmer. However I make no promises about whether the current 
extracts are correct, or if they might change in the future (before they 
are officially supported).

Phil