[PyQt] Qstring and encode

[Phil]

Thank you for reading this.

I retrieve text from a lineEdit like this:

mytext =  self.lineEdit.text()

However, I need to convert the string to a byte array for pyserial.

I can use a python string (but not a QString)like this:

mytext = mytext + "\n"
mybytes = mytext.encode('ascii') # or I can use 'utf-8') 
ser.write(mybytes)

QString doesn't have an encode attribute. How can I overcome this?

I had used bytes(mytext) which worked from within Eric but not from the 
command prompt. Apparently, bytes is not part of python3.

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Regards,
Phil