Comparing two strings in different widgets

[Stainopel]

Am trying to compare two strings in two widgets ( a text browser and a line edit) using pyqt5 and return "same files" or "different files" if the strings are the same or different, in another widget, but I can't seem to get it right. When I execute my GUI, when I click the compare button using this method, it keeps executing only the "else" part even when the two strings contained in the two widgets are exactly the same. Below is my code snippet, any help will be welcome

def hashComp(self):

    v1 = self.textBrowser
    v2 = self.textBrowser_2 

    if v1 == v2 :
        self.textBrowser_3.setText("Same File(s) ")
    else:
        self.textBrowser_3.setText("Different File(s) ")

[Pl45m4]

@Stainopel said in Comparing two strings in different widgets:

v1 = self.textBrowser
v2 = self.textBrowser_2

What do you expect from comparing the widgets? :-)

Try self.textBrowser.text()
(Edit: toPlainText())

[Stainopel]

@Pl45m4 The two widgets contain the results of two different button execution. These results are strings, and I want to compare the content of the widgets if they are same or different. And print the corresponding results when I click on another button to display the results of the comparison

[mrjj]

@Stainopel
Hi
As @Pl45m4 says you are comparing the widgets directly.
You need to use the .text() property to get the text and compare text to text.

[Stainopel]

@mrjj Okay, but please can you illustrate? I have been trying to use .text() suggested but I keep getting an error

v1 = self.textBrowser.text()
AttributeError: 'QTextBrowser' object has no attribute 'text'

[mrjj]

@Stainopel
Ah, i checked the docs and you are right. its called
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtextedit.html#toPlainText

( QTextBrowser is a QTextEdit )

[Stainopel]

@mrjj Thanks so much for the documentation, it was a pointer in the right direction. I did find what I needed to make it work. Here is an upgrade to the code snippet, and it works real well now.

    def hashComp(self):
            v1 = self.textBrowser.toPlainText()
            v2 = self.textBrowser_2.toPlainText()   
            if v1 == v2 :
                self.textBrowser_3.setText("Same File(s)")
            else:
               self.textBrowser_3.setText("Different File(s)")

[Pl45m4]

@Stainopel

Thought this is a QLineEdit since they all have the same name.

compare two strings in two widgets ( a text browser and a line edit)

This is why :) You said QTextBrowser and QLineEdit and they are all named textBrowser_x

[Stainopel]

@Pl45m4 yes I initially used a line edit but ended up changing it to a qtextedit instead. Then using the documentation I was able to get the expected results