Trouble passing an argument

[benlyboy]

Hi I have been working on this all day and it has me beat.
I want to pass the contents of a Qtextedit as a argument in a connect statement.

I tryed this.

self.connect(self.pb1a,SIGNAL("clicked()"),(lambda s=[str(self.cboxa.toPlainText())] : self._edit_(s)))
 
def _edit_(self,inptname):
      print inptname

self.connect(self.pb1a,SIGNAL("clicked()"),(lambda s=[str(self.cboxa.toPlainText())] : self._edit_(s)))

def _edit_(self,inptname):
      print inptname

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But all I seem to get with this is a empty string, but if i do this it works.

self.connect(self.pb1a,SIGNAL("clicked()"),self._edit_()))
 
def _edit_(self,inptname):
      print str(self.cboxa.toPlainText())

self.connect(self.pb1a,SIGNAL("clicked()"),self._edit_()))

def _edit_(self,inptname):
      print str(self.cboxa.toPlainText())

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Just to make it even more confusing this works

self.connect(self.pb1a,SIGNAL("clicked()"),(lambda s="this is a string"] : self._edit_(s)))
 
def _edit_(self,inptname):
      print inptname

self.connect(self.pb1a,SIGNAL("clicked()"),(lambda s="this is a string"] : self._edit_(s)))

def _edit_(self,inptname):
      print inptname

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So way can't i pass the text from the Qtextedit.

What am I missing..???