[Python-modules-team] Bug#834875: regression: qsettings can no longer save binary strings

Sat Sep 3 11:02:34 UTC 2016

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 06:54:35PM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> But now, to work around it, relational pickles and then encodes to
> base64 before storing to QSettings.

That is quite a bad work-around. If your upstream wants to support PyQt v5.7
(as released upstream), it is better to wrap the value in QByteArray.

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Dmitry Shachnev
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