PyQt6 and invalid enums: QKeySequence/QKeyCombination

[Florian Bruhin]

Hey,

I wanted to report another case where I see invalid enum ValueErrors
from PyQt6 without doing anything wrong. Not sure if this changes
anything about the big picture, but maybe it does, given that the
underlying issue is a bit different:

    >>> qkeycombination = QKeySequence("\x80")[0]
    >>> qkeycombination.key()
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/enum.py", line 385, in __call__
        return cls.__new__(cls, value)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/enum.py", line 710, in __new__
        raise ve_exc
    ValueError: 128 is not a valid Qt.Key

I think Qt.Key is special in that regard because unicode characters
(at least those not represented in the enum) just end up as a
pseudo-member of that enum:
https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/v6.3.0/src/corelib/global/qnamespace.h#L677-L682

This seems reflected in some places of the Qt API (I think that's why
e.g. QKeyEvent.key() returns an int, not a Qt.Key), but evidently not in
others (QKeyCombination.key() in this case).

Florian

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