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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hello guys,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I currently have a very mysterious problem with PyQT and neither Stackoverflow (<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/q/16614187/2394681">http://stackoverflow.com/q/16614187/2394681</a>)
 nor any of my friends and coworkers can help me with it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I'm building a PyQt QGraphicsView project where some QGraphicItems can be moved around between different QGraphicsItemGroups.
 For that, I use the addItemToGroup() method of the "new" parent itemGroup. <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This works fine, but only so long as I do not define the itemChange() method in my custom child-item class.
 Once I define that method (even if I just pass the function call to the super class), the childItems will not be added to ItemGroups no matter what I try.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">class MyChildItem(QtGui.QGraphicsItemGroup):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">    def itemChange(self, change, value):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">        # TODO: Do something for certain cases of ItemPositionChange<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">        return QtGui.QGraphicsItemGroup.itemChange(self, change, value)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">        #return super().itemChange(change, value)   # Tried this variation too<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Am I simply too stupid for properly calling a superclass method in Python, or is the problem somewhere in the
 QT / PyQT magic?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I use Python 3.3 with PyQt 4.8 and QT 5.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I would really appreciate any kind of help or ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Thanks a lot,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Christian Zöllner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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