How to pass arguments to callback functions in PyQt

Question

I have around 10 QAction (this number will vary in runtime) in a toolbar, which all will do same thing, but using different parameters. I am thinking to add parameter as an

Answer 1

There is still a bug in the way PyQt uses QSignalMapper. I discovered a work-around here:

http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2010-March/026113.html

To fix the answered question make the following change:

        action.triggered[()].connect(self.mapper.map)

This was needed for the following version of Python:

Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Feb 21 2013, 19:26:11)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)] on linux2