[PyQt] AttributeError: 'QString' object has no attribute 'endswith'

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2016 17:17:38 Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> On Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2016 12:37:00 Yosbanis Vicente Gonzalez wrote:
> >         dir = self.ledit_send_dir.text()
> 
> You're getting a QString out of your UI. Try:
> 
>          dir = unicode(self.ledit_send_dir.text())
> 
> _One_ way to avoid these games is using Python 3, where all strings are
> unicode strings, and consequently, PyQt has eliminated QString altogether..

Another for Python 2 is:

import sip
sip.setapi('QString', 2)

before _any_ PyQt imports, with the same result.

Pete