Code Refactoring for Signals and Slots

pylix

Hello,

I have writing a UI using pyside. Problem is I have around 15 buttons in my application that when pushed open a dialog box and ask for a file or directory and then update a related lineEdit.

I have a askforfile() method which I like to associate with all these buttons. Unfortunately using the clicked.connect way of handling slots in PySide I have to write a new function for each button that would actually do the same thing.

So I tried to use lamba function in order to be able to pass the name of the lineEdit as a parameter of the askforfile() method. but I am getting error implementing this.
Could anybody please help me figure out what I am doing wrong ?

@class MainAppWindow(QMainWindow):

def __init__(self, 
             parent=None):
    super(MainAppWindow, self).__init__()
   
    self.ui = Ui_MainWindow.Ui_MainWindow()
    self.ui.setupUi(self)    
    self.ui.X_Vel_pushButton.clicked.connect(lambda name="X_Vel_lineEdit": self.askforfile&#40;name&#41;)
    def askforfile&#40;self,currentLineEdit&#41;:
    
         curFileName=self.ui.currentLineEdit.text()
        (fileName, _selectedFilter) = QtGui.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, filter="*.txt;;*.*",viewMode="Detail")
        if fileName!="" and fileName!=curFileName:
             self.ui.X_Vel_lineEdit.setText(fileName)

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I am guessting something is wrong in my passing of currentLineEdit to askforfile().
I would appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance