[PyQt] Access QObject's staticQtMetaObject private member

[Florian Bruhin]

* Kernc <kerncece at gmail.com> [2015-11-15 00:11:20 +0100]:
> With it, one can then extract "meta" information of the Qt namespace,
> namely the string names of various enum values [1].
> 
> Is there, or would there be a use for, anything similar in PyQt?
> 
> Given:
> 
> >>> from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt
> >>> buttons = Qt.LeftButton | Qt.RightButton
> 
> is it at all possible to obtain str 'LeftButton' as one of the set
> flags from the value of `buttons` without depending on Qt C++ sources
> and without creating an own mapping dict of all possible values (by
> name) for QtCore.Qt.MouseButton enum class (and likewise for all other
> possible enum classes of interest)?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions!

FWIW, I have some code to do this which also works for values without
a staticMetaObject:

https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/blob/master/qutebrowser/utils/debug.py#L91-L167
https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/blob/master/tests/unit/utils/test_debug.py#L125-L185

Florian

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