The reason for this is that PySide (1.2.2) returns tuple-nested unicode and PyQt4 (4.8.6) returns unicode when calling QtGui.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName (). Will submit a quick and dirty fix for this ...
Using IPython 0.12 (or 0.12.1) and PyQt4 (or even Qt widgets compiled in C++ run from IPython), I get some strange behaviours of the event loop. Typically, QFileDialog.exec_() returns immediately when ...
So I'm using the latest PyQt (which uses Qt 4.6) to create a program that blah blah and has a dock with a file browser. I have the file browser working fine, displaying My Computer as the root ...