[PyKDE] Odd behavior from KFileItem

Paul Waldo pwaldo at waldoware.com
Wed Aug 2 17:18:31 BST 2006


Hi Jim,

I know its been a while since we talked about this issue.  I put together a 
quickie test harness to illustrate the file size issue.  Hopefully that will 
help.  Thanks for any help you can provide!

Paul

On Thursday 20 July 2006 2:58 pm, Jim Bublitz wrote:
> On Thursday 20 July 2006 10:41, Paul Waldo wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm seeing some odd behavior from KFileItem.  I use KIO.listRecursive to
> > get files:
> >     def locateFiles(self, url):
> >          self.kurl = KURL(url)
> >          job = KIO.listRecursive(self.kurl, False)
> >          QObject.connect(job, SIGNAL("entries(KIO::Job*, const
> > KIO::UDSEntryList&)"), self.newItems)
> >
> > For each of the found files, I create a KFileItem:
> >      def newItems(self, job, list):
> >          newFiles = []
> >          for udsList in list:
> >              f = KFileItem(udsList, self.kurl, False, True)
> >              newFiles.append(f)
> >              self.files.append(f)
> >
> > Later on, I display the data for each of the found files:
> > class FileItem:
> >      def __init__(self, destDirBase, template, kFileItem, parent):
> >          self._kFileItem = kFileItem
> >          self.size = str(self._kFileItem.size())
> >          if self.size == None:
> >              self.size = "Unknown"
> >          self.time = self._kFileItem.timeString()
> >
> > The size always ends up as None.  I've pulled apart the UDSEntryList and
> > the size appears to be correct there.  Somehow KFileItem is not storing
> > it.
>
> The only problem I can see that PyKDE could introduce is an incorrect
> conversion from KIO.filesize_t to  Python long.  I'm pretty sure that works
> correctly, but will check it again. I don't see anywhere else PyKDE could
> introduce a problem.
>
> > Also, the KFileItem::timeString is off; for example, "ls" reports the
> > time correctly as "Jul 20 11:03", while the timeString reports
> > "2006-07-20 3:03 pm".  Is this a locale issue? My "date" command is
> > showing this: "Thu Jul 20 13:38:44 EDT 2006".
>
> Looks like an EDT vs GMT issue?
>
> > I'm running PyKde3 and python 2.4.3.
> >
> >
> > Any light you could shed on either of these issues would be greatly
> > appreciated!
> >
> > Paul
> >
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