[PyQt] QFileDialog.getSaveFileName returns a tuple, but should return a string

Maxwell Grady max.grady at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 16:40:06 BST 2017


I believe this is the expected behavior for PyQt5 compared to PyQt4.

http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/pyqt4_differences.html#qfiledialog


-Maxwell




On Aug 1, 2017 11:30 AM, "Webster, Jeremy David" <jwebster at lanl.gov> wrote:

> A minor inconvenience I think, but the documentation for
> QFileDialog.getSaveFileName shows it should return the filename as a
> string, but it returns a tuple that consists of the filename string and the
> filter
>
>
> other related methods...
>
>
> getOpenFileName has the same, "incorrect" behavior
>
>
> getExistingDirectory behaves correctly
>
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