strange QLineEdit problem in PyQt

[taco]

taco wrote:

ah, I solved it myself. for completeness reasons. I had upgraded python for 
reportlab which needed this python version, while still using a pyqt which 
was compiled for 2.6. After compilation and changing pythonpath to the right 
site-packages dir it's working


> hi,
> I have a form containing a few QLineedits and I wish to retrieve the
> contents only after pressing a QPushButton.
> a looks like:
> class Contract(QtGui.QWidget):
>   def __init__(self,fileInfo, parent=None):
>     QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self,parent)
>     self.name = QtGui.QLineEdit("")
>     .....
>     self.createDoc = QtGui.QPushButton("do it")
>     self.connect(createDoc,QtCore.SIGNAL("clicked()"),self.Foo)
>     mainLayout.addWidget(self.name)
>     mainLayout.addWidget(sef.createDoc)
> 
>  def Foo(self):
>    print self.name.text()
> 
> when executing this I get only a few characters back from the line. It's
> incomplete. How to retrieve the complete string? I don't need a signal for
> every typed character.
> 
> taco