Signals and slots in PyQt

Question

In the past I've had some experience of Qt in C++. I've now started using PyQt, and finding it a bit bewildering. There doesn't seem to be any definitive source of documentation, apart from a small amount at Riverbank. I guess the first thing I'd like to know is that there's an initial hump with PyQt, and it does get easier. [Edit: The main problem I was having was due to a typo - init not __init__. I'm not finding it so hard now :P]

The Riverbank docs talk about new style signals and slots for PyQt, as well as old style. They suggest that the new style is better, but I was wondering if that is what most users of PyQt do.

Answer 1

Yes, that is. New syntax is more clear, so why not? Note, that when you trying to connect slots by name, you must call connectSlotsByName explicitly, since there no preprocessor that will work before execution and connect them.

PS: Beside, C++ syntax for signal/slot connnection is just ugly, and old PyQt syntax was pretty similar without any reason, so I was glad to see this change in PyQt.

PS2: There was the question here recently about this, check it out.