Migrating to Qt6/PyQt6: what are all the deprecated short-form names in Qt5? - qt

Question

I'm trying to migrate a codebase from PyQt5 to PyQt6. I read in this article (see https://www.pythonguis.com/faq/pyqt5-vs-pyqt6/) that all enum members must be named using their fully qualified names. The article gives this example:
# PyQt5
widget = QCheckBox("This is a checkbox")
widget.setCheckState(Qt.Checked)
# PyQt6
widget = QCheckBox("This is a checkbox")
widget.setCheckState(Qt.CheckState.Checked)
Then the article continues:
"There are too many updated values to mention them all here. But if you're converting a codebase you can usually just search online for the short-form and the longer form will be in the results."
I get the point. This quote basically says something along the lines:
"If the Python interpreter runs into an error, and the error turns out to be a short-form enum, you'll likely find the solution online."
I get that. But this is not how I want to migrate the codebase. I want a full list of all the short-form enums and then perform a global search-and-replace for each.
Where can I find such a list?

Answer 1

I wrote a script to extract all the short-form and corresponding fully qualified enum names from the PyQt6 installation. It then does the conversions automatically:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# ================================================================================================ #
# ENUM CONVERTER TOOL #
# ================================================================================================ #
from typing import *
import os, argparse, inspect, re
q = "'"
help_text = '''
Copyright (c) 2022 Kristof Mulier
MIT licensed, see bottom
ENUM CONVERTER TOOL
===================
The script starts from the toplevel directory (assuming that you put this file in that directory)
and crawls through all the files and folders. In each file, it searches for old-style enums to
convert them into fully qualified names.
HOW TO USE
==========
Fill in the path to your PyQt6 installation folder. See line 57:
pyqt6_folderpath = 'C:/Python39/Lib/site-packages/PyQt6'
Place this script in the toplevel directory of your project. Open a terminal, navigate to the
directory and invoke this script:
$ python enum_converter_tool.py
WARNING
=======
This script modifies the files in your project! Make sure to backup your project before you put this
file inside. Also, you might first want to do a dry run:
$ python enum_converter_tool.py --dry_run
FEATURES
========
You can invoke this script in the following ways:
$ python enum_converter_tool.py No parameters. The script simply goes through
all the files and makes the replacements.
$ python enum_converter_tool.py --dry_run Dry run mode. The script won't do any replace-
ments, but prints out what it could replace.
$ python enum_converter_tool.py --show Print the dictionary this script creates to
convert the old-style enums into new-style.
$ python enum_converter_tool.py --help Show this help info
'''
# IMPORTANT: Point at the folder where PyQt6 stub files are located. This folder will be examined to
# fill the 'enum_dict'.
pyqt6_folderpath = 'C:/Python39/Lib/site-packages/PyQt6'
# Figure out where the toplevel directory is located. We assume that this converter tool is located
# in that directory. An os.walk() operation starts from this toplevel directory to find and process
# all files.
toplevel_directory = os.path.realpath(
os.path.dirname(
os.path.realpath(
inspect.getfile(
inspect.currentframe()
)
)
)
).replace('\\', '/')
# Figure out the name of this script. It will be used later on to exclude oneself from the replace-
# ments.
script_name = os.path.realpath(
inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe())
).replace('\\', '/').split('/')[-1]
# Create the dictionary that will be filled with enums
enum_dict:Dict[str, str] = {}
def fill_enum_dict(filepath:str) -> None:
'''
Parse the given stub file to extract the enums and flags. Each one is inside a class, possibly a
nested one. For example:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
| class Qt(PyQt6.sip.simplewrapper): |
| class HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy(enum.Enum): |
| Round = ... # type: Qt.HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy |
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The enum 'Round' is from class 'HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy' which is in turn from class
'Qt'. The old reference style would then be:
> Qt.Round
The new style (fully qualified name) would be:
> Qt.HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy.Round
The aim of this function is to fill the 'enum_dict' with an entry like:
enum_dict = {
'Qt.Round' : 'Qt.HighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy.Round'
}
'''
content:str = ''
with open(filepath, 'r', encoding='utf-8', newline='\n', errors='replace') as f:
content = f.read()
p = re.compile(r'(\w+)\s+=\s+\.\.\.\s+#\s*type:\s*([\w.]+)')
for m in p.finditer(content):
# Observe the enum's name, eg. 'Round'
enum_name = m.group(1)
# Figure out in which classes it is
class_list = m.group(2).split('.')
# If it belongs to just one class (no nesting), there is no point in continuing
if len(class_list) == 1:
continue
# Extract the old and new enum's name
old_enum = f'{class_list[0]}.{enum_name}'
new_enum = ''
for class_name in class_list:
new_enum += f'{class_name}.'
continue
new_enum += enum_name
# Add them to the 'enum_dict'
enum_dict[old_enum] = new_enum
continue
return
def show_help() -> None:
'''
Print help info and quit.
'''
print(help_text)
return
def convert_enums_in_file(filepath:str, dry_run:bool) -> None:
'''
Convert the enums in the given file.
'''
filename:str = filepath.split('/')[-1]
# Ignore the file in some cases
if any(filename == fname for fname in (script_name, )):
return
# Read the content
content:str = ''
with open(filepath, 'r', encoding='utf-8', newline='\n', errors='replace') as f:
content = f.read()
# Loop over all the keys in the 'enum_dict'. Perform a replacement in the 'content' for each of
# them.
for k, v in enum_dict.items():
if k not in content:
continue
# Compile a regex pattern that only looks for the old enum (represented by the key of the
# 'enum_dict') if it is surrounded by bounds. What we want to avoid is a situation like
# this:
# k = 'Qt.Window'
# k found in 'qt.Qt.WindowType.Window'
# In the situation above, k is found in 'qt.Qt.WindowType.Window' such that a replacement
# will take place there, messing up the code! By surrounding k with bounds in the regex pat-
# tern, this won't happen.
p = re.compile(fr'\b{k}\b')
# Substitute all occurences of k (key) in 'content' with v (value). The 'subn()' method re-
# turns a tuple (new_string, number_of_subs_made).
new_content, n = p.subn(v, content)
if n == 0:
assert new_content == content
continue
assert new_content != content
print(f'{q}{filename}{q}: Replace {q}{k}{q} => {q}{v}{q} ({n})')
content = new_content
continue
if dry_run:
return
with open(filepath, 'w', encoding='utf-8', newline='\n', errors='replace') as f:
f.write(content)
return
def convert_all(dry_run:bool) -> None:
'''
Search and replace all enums.
'''
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(toplevel_directory):
for f in files:
if not f.endswith('.py'):
continue
filepath = os.path.join(root, f).replace('\\', '/')
convert_enums_in_file(filepath, dry_run)
continue
continue
return
if __name__ == '__main__':
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description = 'Convert enums to fully-qualified names',
add_help = False,
)
parser.add_argument('-h', '--help' , action='store_true')
parser.add_argument('-d', '--dry_run' , action='store_true')
parser.add_argument('-s', '--show' , action='store_true')
args = parser.parse_args()
if args.help:
show_help()
else:
#& Check if 'pyqt6_folderpath' exists
if not os.path.exists(pyqt6_folderpath):
print(
f'\nERROR:\n'
f'Folder {q}{pyqt6_folderpath}{q} could not be found. Make sure that variable '
f'{q}pyqt6_folderpath{q} from line 57 points to the PyQt6 installation folder.\n'
)
else:
#& Fill the 'enum_dict'
type_hint_files = [
os.path.join(pyqt6_folderpath, _filename)
for _filename in os.listdir(pyqt6_folderpath)
if _filename.endswith('.pyi')
]
for _filepath in type_hint_files:
fill_enum_dict(_filepath)
continue
#& Perform requested action
if args.show:
import pprint
pprint.pprint(enum_dict)
elif args.dry_run:
print('\nDRY RUN\n')
convert_all(dry_run=True)
else:
convert_all(dry_run=False)
print('\nQuit enum converter tool\n')
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# ===========
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Make sure you backup your Python project. Then place this file in the toplevel directory of the project. Modify line 57 (!) such that it points to your PyQt6 installation folder.
First run the script with the --dry_run flag to make sure you agree with the replacements. Then run it without any flags.