sender() returns None ?

feiyuhuahuo

My code is:

from PySide6.QtUiTools import QUiLoader
from PySide6.QtWidgets import QMainWindow
from PySide6 import QtWidgets
class Solar(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.main_ui = QUiLoader().load('test.ui')
        self.main_ui.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.ppt)
        self.main_ui.pushButton_2.clicked.connect(self.ppt)
        self.main_ui.pushButton_3.clicked.connect(self.ppt)

    def ppt(self):
        print(self)
        print('---------------')
        print(self.main_ui)
        print('---------------')
        print(self.sender())
        print('---------------')
        print(self.main_ui.sender())


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication()
    scf = Solar()
    scf.main_ui.show()
    app.exec()

And it shows as:

The result printed is:

<__main__.Solar(0x1891d3d2510) at 0x000001891DD3A6C0>
---------------
<PySide6.QtWidgets.QMainWindow(0x1891d363a70, name="MainWindow") at 0x000001891DD3A780>
---------------
<PySide6.QtWidgets.QPushButton(0x1891d363c80, name="pushButton_2") at 0x000001891DD3A9C0>
---------------
None

Why main_ui.sender() returns None? To get the signal realted to a certain button, do I have to let my custom Class inherit QMainWindow?

jsulm

@feiyuhuahuo said in sender() returns None ?:

print(self.main_ui.sender())

This is wrong.
It should be simply sender().

feiyuhuahuo

@jsulm If my custom class does not inherit QMainWindow, like this,

class Solar:
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.main_ui = QUiLoader().load('test.ui')
        self.main_ui.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.ppt)

    def ppt(self):
        print(self.main_ui.sender())


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication()
    scf = Solar()
    scf.main_ui.show()
    app.exec()

The result is None, why? Why self.main_ui.sender() is useless? It is also a QMainWindow object.

jsulm

@feiyuhuahuo said in sender() returns None ?:

If my custom class does not inherit QMainWindo

Try to inherit from QObject at least if you want to use signals/slots

JonB

@feiyuhuahuo
In addition to what @jsulm has been telling you about how to access sender().

Why do you want to use sender() at all? It's OK if you want to call it for, say, debugging purposes to see where your slot has been called from. But it is no longer the best way to access the sender in production code. For that you should now use a lambda for the slot in your connect() statements, passing an explicit parameter of the sender. I think in Python it would be:

self.main_ui.pushButton.clicked.connect(lambda btn=self.main_ui.pushButton: self.ppt(btn))

    def ppt(self, btn):
        print(btn)

Also with this approach you do not have to make Solar inherit from QObject.