[PyKDE] QString in PyQt4 - Request for Comments

[Giovanni Bajo]

Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:

>> Being a newb here, I could be way off base, but one of the selling
>> points I keep reading for using PyQt and PyKDE are for rapid
>> prototyping apps that later get converted to C++.  Would getting rid
>> of QStrings not impose a greater conversion burden on these people
>> and thus alienate them?
>
> As I've said, I have made that selling point many times - mainly as a
> sop to C++ programmers and avoid religious
> my-language-is-better-than-yours arguments.  However, I don't know of
> anybody who has actually done it.


I do that very often. Even for C++ applications, it happens from time to time
to quickly test this or that dialog using PyQt. Just like we use designer to
see how things can be "arranged", even if we end up writing up the code to
build the dialogs, we use PyQt to see how "interactive" things can be arranged.

Anyway, I'm not sure I have ever had issues with strings in these prototypes.

Giovanni Bajo