Decoding a dragged qListWidget using qDataStream/QByteArray with pyqt

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I sub classed the QScrollArea using the following code:

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore, Qt
 
class ScrollArea (QtGui.QScrollArea):   
    def dragEnterEvent(self, event):
        if event.mimeData().hasFormat('application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist'):
            event.accept()
        else:
            event.ignore()
 
    def dropEvent(self, event):      
        mimeData = event.mimeData()
        for mimeFormat in mimeData.formats():
            if mimeFormat != 'application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist':
                continue
        encoded = mimeData.data(mimeFormat)
        #encoded is a QByteArray
        print "length:", encoded.length()
        print "isNull:", encoded.isNull()
        print "isEmpty:", encoded.isEmpty()
 
        stream = QtCore.QDataStream(encoded, QtCore.QIODevice.ReadOnly)
        #  Returns the index from the qListWidget
        index = stream.readUInt32()

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore, Qt

class ScrollArea (QtGui.QScrollArea):   
    def dragEnterEvent(self, event):
        if event.mimeData().hasFormat('application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist'):
            event.accept()
        else:
            event.ignore()
    
    def dropEvent(self, event):      
        mimeData = event.mimeData()
        for mimeFormat in mimeData.formats():
            if mimeFormat != 'application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist':
                continue
        encoded = mimeData.data(mimeFormat)
        #encoded is a QByteArray
        print "length:", encoded.length()
        print "isNull:", encoded.isNull()
        print "isEmpty:", encoded.isEmpty()

        stream = QtCore.QDataStream(encoded, QtCore.QIODevice.ReadOnly)
        #  Returns the index from the qListWidget
        index = stream.readUInt32()

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In designer I promoted the scrollArea including accepting drops using the class above and set the QListWidget to dragable. The drop is only works when I am dragging onto the promoted scroll area which is what I want.

I can't seem to figure out how to retrieve the item that was dragged out of the qListWidget in the drop event.

I put a bunch or print statments to test of the classes. Length varies on the length of the item, if I have "1" as an item, it prints out:
length: 27
isNull: False
isEmpty: False
status 0
byteOrder 0

"12" shows a length of 29. This goes for the same as letters. Not sure what the number is based off of.

Thanks, this is all I have so far. I did try playing with "stream" and still couldn't get any results.