Why is PyQt connect() syntax so verbose?

Question

I\'m just learning PyQt and looking at the Signals and Slots mechanism. I\'m a bit baffled by the verbose syntax. Why do we have:

self.connect(dial, SIGNAL(\         


        

Answer 1

Luper's answer is much better than this one, but for the sake of completeness...

The ugly "old style" syntax is an anachronism from the C++ world - just look at the syntax those guys have to work with! Yucky...