Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'url:sourceforge': 0.03; 'attribute': 0.07; 'see:': 0.07; 'sys': 0.07; 'inserted': 0.09; 'instance.': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'exist.': 0.16; 'from:name:vincent vande vyvre': 0.16; 'himself.': 0.16; 'received:195.130': 0.16; 'received:195.130.137': 0.16; 'received :telenet-ops.be': 0.16; 'with?': 0.16; '\xe9crit': 0.16; 'app': 0.19; 'trying': 0.19; 'alex': 0.19; 'subject:Issue': 0.19; 'widget': 0.19; '>>>': 0.22; 'import': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; "i've": 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'skip:g 30': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; "skip:' 10": 0.31; '"",': 0.31; 'skip:q 20': 0.31; 'file': 0.32; '(most': 0.33; 'sense': 0.34; 'subject:from': 0.34; 'subject:with': 0.35; 'returning': 0.36; 'method': 0.36; 'hi,': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.38; 'recent': 0.39; 'delete': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'header:Reply-To:1': 0.67; 'mar': 0.68; 'reply-to:no real name:2**0': 0.71; 'discovered': 0.83; '2014,': 0.84; 'demonstrates': 0.84 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:32:44 +0200 From: Vincent Vande Vyvre User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: PyQt4 - Issue with deleting a QWidget from a QGridLayout References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: vincent.vandevyvre@oqapy.eu List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1408488242 news.xs4all.nl 2850 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39423 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:76615 Le 20/08/2014 00:11, Alex Murray a écrit : > Hi, > I've discovered some very strange behaviour when trying to delete a > QWidget from a QGridLayout. The following code demonstrates this > behaviour: > >>> from PyQt4 import QtGui > >>> import sys > >>> app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv) > >>> grid_layout = QtGui.QGridLayout() > >>> grid_layout.addWidget(QtGui.QWidget()) > >>> item = self.grid_layout.takeAt(0) > >>> item.deleteLater() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > AttributeError: 'QWidgetItem' object has no attribute 'deleteLater' > This makes no sense to me whatsoever. Firstly, why is it returning a > QWidgetItem when I inserted a QWidget to begin with? Secondly, every > Qt object derives from QObject, and deleteLater() is a method of > QObject, so that method should exist. Additional info: > Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) > [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2 > using PyQt4 > > QLayout.takeAt() returns a QWidgetItem not the instance of the widget himself. See: http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/qlayout.html#takeAt You must use item.widget() to retrieve your widget instance.