My question refers to the accepted answer of the question How to capture output of Python's interpreter and show in a Text widget? which shows how to redirect standard output to a QTextEdit.
The author, Ferdinand Beyer, defines a class EmittingStream as such:
from PyQt4 import QtCore
class EmittingStream(QtCore.QObject):
textWritten = QtCore.pyqtSignal(str)
def write(self, text):
self.textWritten.emit(str(text))
He uses the class like this:
# Within your main window class...
def __init__(self, parent=None, **kwargs):
# ...
# Install the custom output stream
sys.stdout = EmittingStream(textWritten=self.normalOutputWritten)
def __del__(self):
# Restore sys.stdout
sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__
def normalOutputWritten(self, text):
"""Append text to the QTextEdit."""
# Maybe QTextEdit.append() works as well, but this is how I do it:
cursor = self.textEdit.textCursor()
cursor.movePosition(QtGui.QTextCursor.End)
cursor.insertText(text)
self.textEdit.setTextCursor(cursor)
self.textEdit.ensureCursorVisible()
I don't understand the line that instantiates the EmittingStream class. It looks as if the keyword argument textWritten=self.normalOutputWritten connects the textWritten-signal to the normalOutputWritten-slot, but I do not understand why this works.
