Direct stdio to combo box

Blackbear

I am using this;

@ def init_combo(self):
recent = ResDir + '/combo_list.sh'
process = subprocess.Popen([recent], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
combo_list = process.communicate()[0]
for workspace in combo_list:
self.cmbWorkspaces.addItem(workspace)@

The script, recent_list.sh, returns several lines of text with no spaces. My intent is to add each line as an item to the combo box. What I am getting is each character added as a separate item.

How do I get a string into my combo box instead of characters?

Cheers,

jazzycamel

I'm guessing that what you're getting back from communicate() is not a list but a single string containing the items from your bash script separated by '\n' characters. If you iterate over a string it will yield one character per iteration. If you want to break that string into a list just do the following:

@
combo_list=combo_list.split('\n')
@

A full working example using "QProcess":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qprocess.html rather than Python process is as follows:

@
import sip
sip.setapi('QString',2)
sip.setapi('QVariant',2)

from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

class Widget(QWidget):
def init(self, parent=None, **kwargs):
QWidget.init(self, parent, **kwargs)

    l=QVBoxLayout(self)
    self._combo=QComboBox(self)
    l.addWidget(self._combo)

    self._process=QProcess(
        self,
        readyReadStandardOutput=self.read
    )
    self._process.start("./test.sh")

@pyqtSlot()
def read(self):
    for item in self._process.readAllStandardOutput().split("\n"):
        if not len(item): continue
        self._combo.addItem(str(item))

if name=="main":
from sys import argv, exit

a=QApplication(argv)
w=Widget()
w.show()
w.raise_()
exit(a.exec_())

@

'test.sh' consists of the following:

@
echo Item1
echo Item2
echo Item3
@

Hope this helps ;o)

Blackbear

Split did it.

I use QProcess for external process that take a noticeable amount of time. Otherwise I use subprocess because the code is much simpler.

thanks,

jazzycamel

Glad it worked. Can you mark the thread as [solved] if thats the case ;o)