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 tri

Answer 1

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.