So i'm using the Google Maps API to work out the straight-line distance between 2 points on the map.
Qt Code: 
  1. gmaps="""
  2. ***generic google maps HTML api stuff first, then:***
  3.  
  4. overalldist=calcDistance(firstcoord, secondcoord);
  5. alert(overalldist)
  6.  
  7. //calculates distance between two points in km's
  8. function calcDistance(firstcoord, secondcoord) {
  9.       return (google.maps.geometry.spherical.computeDistanceBetween(firstcoord, secondcoord) / 1000).toFixed(2);
  10. """
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This is within the script section of my HTML code which is all placed within a simple string in Python. The string is called by:
Qt Code: 
  1. self.webView.setHtml(gmaps)
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Where gmaps is the string name that contains the HTML and webView is the name of the HTML viewer in my PyQt GUI.

The outcome is a popup box outputting the correct distance.

My issue is that I cannot extract the variable 'overalldist' from the HTML. The alert pops up with the correct distance but I then cannot move this into my Python code.

Please advise.

Any further ideas?

It is the function calcDistance I am attempting to retrieve from the HTML code to use in my Python code.