[PyQt] Creating a QUrl out of a string

[Florian Bruhin]

On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 04:18:27PM -0400, Christopher Probst wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the newbie question. I am trying to create a QUrl out of a
> string. The sample code is here:
> 
> string = QInputDialog.getText(self, "Download URL", "Enter URL to download")
> url = QUrl( str(string) )
> print ("the url is ", url)
> 
> the output gives me
> the url is  PyQt5.QtCore.QUrl('')
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Hard to say without knowing what you're entering, but you're probably
entering an invalid URL (like example.com instead of
http://example.com).

You might want QUrl.fromUserInput instead:
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qurl.html#fromUserInput

Florian

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