[PyKDE] Re: PyQt4, my approach was wrong before or now?

[Gerard Vermeulen]

On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:41:10 +0100
"V. Armando Sole" <sole at esrf.fr> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> In order to be able to use the same code with PyQt3 and PyQt4, I had 
> written a small Qt4.py  wrapper to simplify simple cases.
> 
> from PyQt4.QtCore import *
> from PyQt4.QtGui import *

There are two namespaces Qt: one in QtCore and one in QtGui.
Qt.Vertical is part of QtCore, but this gets wiped out
by your import: from PyQt4.QtGui import *

Gerard


> QIconSet = QIcon
> QWMatrix = QMatrix
> print "Qt.Vertical = ", Qt.Vertical
> print "QSplitter   = ", QSplitter
> QSplitter.Vertical = Qt.Vertical
> Qt.WDestructiveClose = Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose
> class QPopupMenu(QMenu):
>      def insertItem(self, *var):
>          QMenu.addAction(self,*var)
> 
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>      print "test passed"
> 
> 
> The goal was to be able to type:
> try:
>     import Qt4 as qt
> except:
>     import qt
> 
> in my code in order to get the source independent of a PyQt3 or a PyQt4 
> installation.
> 
> My problem is the above code was working till the 20060218 snapshot 
> inclusive. However, later snapshots do not allow it giving an error about 
> Vertical not being an attribute of Qt. My question is if the code should 
> never have worked.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Armando
>