I want to retrieve plain text from QLineEdit()
object. The text method returns a QString
object. I just want a simple string object.
I am using pyqt4.
def n(self):
new_label=QLineEdit()
new_label.setText("txt")
txt=self.new_label.text()
self.name=txt
txt should be a simple string not QString
.
To convert one QString in Python 2, do this:
self.name = unicode(self.new_label.text())
To automatically convert all QStrings, put this at the beginning of your code:
import sip
sip.setapi('QString', 2)
# must be before any pyqt imports
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
If you do this, there's no need to keep using unicode()
, because all methods will return python strings instead of QStrings. And note that with Python 3, this behaviour is the default, so you would not need to do anything to always get python strings.