[PyQt] [bug] QFontMetrics Regression in 5.13 on Python2

[Phil Thompson]

On 08/07/2019 15:18, Chris Billington wrote:
> The following example raises an exception on Python 2 with PyQt5 5.13. 
> It
> does not raise an exception on Python 3 or on PyQt5 5.12.3.
> 
> from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication
> from PyQt5.QtGui import QFontMetrics
> app = QApplication([])
> QFontMetrics(app.font()).inFont(u'\u2605')
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "292.py", line 4, in <module>
>     QFontMetrics(app.font()).inFont(u'\u2605')
> ValueError: string of length 1 expected
> 
> This causes tortoisehg to crash for example, as it contains the above
> QFontMetrics call. u'\u2605' looks like a string of length one to me, 
> so
> this looks like perhaps confounding byte-length with codepoint-length.

This will be fixed in tonight's snapshot.

It's actually a bad regression (but only affects Python v2) so there 
will be a v5.13.1 release soon.

Thanks,
Phil