On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 17:25:56 +0200, Andreas Pakulat <ap...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 02.09.11 16:12:49, Phil Thompson wrote: >> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:04:06 +0200, Andreas Pakulat <ap...@gmx.de> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm facing a small problem with QSettings and storing a python list in >> > it. It seems that I can't store an empty list properly into a QSettings >> > object, its always converted to an invalid QVariant somewhere along the >> > way. The attached sample script shows this, all is well until I create >> > a >> > new QSettings object from the file and try to get the list again. The >> > printout of the ini file also shows this. >> > >> > Specifying the type for the value() call does not work, that raises an >> > error that the conversion of the QVariant does not work due to >> > different >> > typeids (0 vs. 256). >> > >> > Am I doing something wrong or do I really need to serialize the list >> > manually into a string? (Can't even use QStringList here since thats >> > not >> > available with the v2 API). >> > >> > sip: 4.12.1 >> > PyQt: 4.8.3 >> > Qt: 4.7.3 >> >> The problem with specifying an explicit type should be fixed in tonight's >> snapshot. > > Ok, but what about the @Invalid being stored if I give > QSettings.setValue an empty list as value? Is that expected?
Yes because PyQt has no idea what it might be a list of. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
