[PyQt] Access Python QObject from QML fails to convert on second call

[Phil Thompson]

On 20 May 2016, at 6:42 am, Fabian Sturm <f at rtfs.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Phil!
> 
> I guess we are getting to the bottom of this soon. If I understand it
> correctly. The ownership of the MyItem is transfered to the QML side
> since it is returned through a method invocation and since the MyItems
> don't have a parent they get garbage collected?
> 
> If this is true, the question is, how do I get a proper parent? The
> model is instanciated in the QML code and never passes a parent in the
> MyModel constructor. Otherwise I would have passed this into the
> MyItem. 
> 
> How is this usally handled?

I don't use QML. You could look at the PyQt examples. They seem to do the initial setup in a more simple way - no use of QQmlComponent.

Phil