[PyKDE] Re: QString vs PyString

[Giovanni Bajo]

James Emerton <ephelon at gmail.com> wrote:

> For my own purposes, I am going to attempt to reimplement QString as a
> %MappedType.  I want my users to have as low a barrier to entry as
> possible, and that means strings are string.  Having multiple string
> types is a uniquely C++ problem, not something I wish to export into a
> language that is otherwise as tidy as Python.  I do hope that this
> change makes it into the PyQt distrubution as an option with a big
> warning sign.


Make sure you map QString to unicode strings in Python, or it's going to be
totally useless for serious applications (i18n).

Giovanni Bajo