Handling of flags in PyQt5 / PyQt6

[Florian Bruhin]

Hey again,

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 04:55:42PM +0100, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> Or as a more compact overview:
> 
> PyQt5: enum only (or unscoped)
> PyQt6: flags only
> PySide2: flags only (or unscoped)
> PySide6: flags only (or unscoped)

Well, looks like I successfully confused myself with the Alignment vs.
AlignmentFlag names. Let me try again, please disregard the earlier
mail.

PySide2 and PySide6 both allow access via the *enum* name only. To make
it clearer, let me try again with Qt.Orientation (enum) vs.
Qt.Orientations (flag):

PyQt5:   Qt.Horizontal (unscoped) or Qt.Orientation.Horizontal (enum)
PyQt6:   Qt.Orientations.Horizontal (flag)
PySide2: Qt.Horizontal (unscoped) or Qt.Orientation.Horizontal (enum)
PySide6: Qt.Horizontal (unscoped) or Qt.Orientation.Horizontal (enum)

So PyQt6 seems like the "oddball" here. I'm fine with using scoped
values everywhere, but I think PyQt6 should support accessing flag
values via the enum type, so that it's possible to write code which
works with PyQt5 and PyQt6 (or PyQt6 and PySide6).

Florian

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