[PyQt] pyuic : backslash escaping with untranslatable strings

[Felix Schmidt]

Hi,
I got the following bug (or Feature?) in pyuic :

With Qt Designer I created a QLineEdit with inputMask set to 
"\0\x>HHHH;_" (to input a hex-value like "0x12AB").
So far it's fine.
But when I uncheck the "translatable" flag of this inputMask (don't want 
it to be translated in any language),
pyuic doesn't escape the backslashes anymore.
I get a "ValueError: invalid \x escape" on line
 > self.linHexcode.setInputMask("\0\x>HHHH;_")

With the translatable Flag set again, pyuic correctly generates a
 > 
self.linHexcode.setInputMask(QtGui.QApplication.translate("AddSlaveDialog", 
"\\0\\x>HHHH;_", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))

With other string properties (instead of "inputMask") it's the same thing.

Is there any way to get this fixed? (Of course, i can just ignore this 
string in Linguist, but its not the neat solution. Manually escape the 
string in Qt Designer isn't either.)

Thanks,
Felix Schmidt

Versions:
Python 2.6
Qt 4.5.3
PyQt 4.6
sip 4.9