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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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())

Answer 4

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())