[PyQt] PyQt5 bug in QPropertyAnimation on Windows

[Florian Bruhin]

* Trilarion <pyqt at twelvepm.de> [2015-07-31 23:35:09 +0200]:
> line 9, in <module>
> animation = QPropertyAnimation(pbar, "value")
> TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
> QPropertyAnimation(QObject parent=None): too many arguments
> QPropertyAnimation(QObject, QByteArray, QObject parent=None): argument 2 has
> unexpected type 'str'

The Qt constructor takes a QByteArray (not a QString), so you should
pass a bytes object, not a string.

In earlier versions, passing a string encodable as latin1 worked, but
this behaviour was deprecated in 5.4 and removed in 5.5, as documented
here:

http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/incompatibilities.html#pyqt-v5-5

Florian

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