[PyQt] QSettings.value() returns string instead of bool

[Phil Thompson]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:49:16 +0100, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using sip API v2 for QVariant here and using
> QSettings.setValue/value does not work correctly for booleans. See the
> attached two scripts. In write.py everything looks good, I can store and
> get back a Python boolean. But running read.py which only reads from the
> QSettings object always returns a string instead of a boolean value. It
> almost looks like the wrong QSettings overload is being called...
> 
> My versions are:
> Qt4: 4.7.1
> PyQt4: 4.7.3
> Python: 2.6.6
> Sip: 4.10.2
> 
> Is this something thats fixed in newer PyQt4 versions maybe?

See...

http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/python_v3.html#qsettings

Phil