[PyQt] UnicodeDecodeError with output from Windows OS command

[J Barchan]

On 30 November 2017 at 11:24, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:

> 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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​Oh!  So it doesn't look like that is the right way to address the problem
then...?
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