[PyQt] UnicodeDecodeError with output from Windows OS command

[Florian Bruhin]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 12:12:17PM +0100, Valentin Valls wrote:
> stream = qt.QDataStream(byte_array, qt.QIODevice.ReadOnly)
> my_string = stream.readQString()

This really isn't what a QDataStream is for... and I don't see how it could
work. For me, it doesn't:

    >>> from PyQt5 import QtCore
    >>> ba = QtCore.QByteArray(b'hello')
    >>> s = QtCore.QDataStream(ba, QtCore.QIODevice.ReadOnly)
    >>> s.readQString()
    ''

Florian

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