how to covert an object text to string?

[KLIA]

hey guys

This is in Pyqt

i have this code

filename=os.path.basename(self.lwitem.text())

which self.lwitem.text() holds my filename path but i wanna convert it into a string how am i gonna do that??


Thanks

[simeon87]

You could try str (http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#str).