How do you get the current text contents of a QComboBox

Question

Using pyqt4 and python 2 6  I am using a qcombobox to provide a list of options  I am having problems with using the selected option  I have been able to use a signal to trigger a method when the option is selected  but the problem is that when the user clicks run  the contents of several of these comboboxes need to be taken into account  So basically I need to get the selected contents of a combobox as a string  Thus far I have only been able use this   print combobox1 currentText     to get this   PyQt4 QtCore QString u Test Selection2     when all I really want is the  Test Selection  bit  any ideas  My combo box was made like this   combobox1   qt QComboBox   combobox1 addItems   Test Selection1    Test Selection2    mainLayout addWidget combobox1  0  0

User · Answer

If you want the text value of a QString object you can use the __str__ property, like this:

>>> a = QtCore.QString("Happy Happy, Joy Joy!")
>>> a
PyQt4.QtCore.QString(u'Happy Happy, Joy Joy!')
>>> a.__str__()
u'Happy Happy, Joy Joy!'

Hope that helps.

User · Answer

You can convert the QString type to python string by just using the str function  Assuming you are not using any Unicode characters you can get a python string as below   text   str combobox1 currentText      If you are using any unicode characters  you can do   text   unicode combobox1 currentText

User · Answer

Getting the Text of ComboBox when the item is changed       self ui comboBox activated connect self pass Net Adap     def pass Net Adap self         print str self ui comboBox currentText

User · Answer

PyQt4 can be forced to use a new API in which QString is automatically converted to and from a Python object   import sip sip setapi  QString   2    With this API  QtCore QString class is no longer available and self ui comboBox currentText   will return a Python string or unicode object   See Selecting Incompatible APIs from the doc

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