PyQt 6.8 regression: str -> QChar in typing stubs

[Phil Thompson]

On 13/12/2024 09:01, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Unfortunately PyQt 6.8 (or sip 6.9.0?) had a small regression I didn't
> catch during the prerelease (as I wasn't running mypy against it):
> 
> Some arguments and return types that were previously annotated as str
> are now wrongly annotated as QChar instead.
> 
> Example diff of PyQt6/QtCore.pyi 6.7.1 -> 6.8.0, for QUrlQuery:
> 
>     -    def setQueryDelimiters(self, valueDelimiter: str,
> pairDelimiter: str) -> None: ...
>     +    def setQueryDelimiters(self, valueDelimiter: QChar,
> pairDelimiter: QChar) -> None: ...
> 
> Reproducer:
> 
>     from PyQt6.QtCore import QUrlQuery
>     q = QUrlQuery()
>     q.setQueryDelimiters("=", ";")
> 
> Resulting mypy output:
> 
>     error: Argument 1 to "setQueryDelimiters" of "QUrlQuery" has
> incompatible type "str";
>     expected "QChar"  [arg-type]
>         q.setQueryDelimiters("=", ";")
> 
> 
> Florian

Should be fixed in the next snapshot.

Thanks,
Phil