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    Default Unable to send signal from QPushButton created in Python loop

    I am trying to create a series of buttons in a loop. Each button gets an id number as it's text and when the button is clicked it is supposed to send the id number to a function that will open an archived order. At this time I just want to print the order number to prove that the signal works and each button is connected to the correct order number.

    ui.cmdOpen = QtWidgets.QPushButton(ui.frOrdHist)
    ui.cmdOpen.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(269, line1Y, 61, 22))
    ui.cmdOpen.setText(iOrderId)
    ui.cmdOpen.setObjectName("cmdOpen")
    ui.cmdOpen.clicked.connect(lambda button=ui.cmdOpen:displayOrder(ui, button))


    def displayOrder(ui, button):
    i = button.text()
    print(i)

    When I click the button, I get an error message that says "boolean object has no text attribute"

    I tried passing the order number directly and it would print "False" so still a boolean. I don't know where the boolean is coming from, it must be something wrong in the signal.

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    Default Re: Unable to send signal from QPushButton created in Python loop

    No idea about Python lambdas but you could use a QButtonGroup and simply connect to the group's buttonClicked() signal.

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    Default Re: Unable to send signal from QPushButton created in Python loop

    It's most likely your lambda definition that is causing this confusion. The signal is correct and that boolean is coming from the signal's standard parameter. Have a look at : http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qabstractbutton.html#clicked
    As far as I remember your button parameter will be overwritten with that boolean, so you should rather do something like this:
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    1. ui.cmdOpen.clicked.connect(lambda state, button=ui.cmdOpen:displayOrder(button))
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    Default Re: Unable to send signal from QPushButton created in Python loop

    That is pretty much the correct answer, the code that works is:

    ui.cmdOpen.clicked.connect(lambda checked, button=ui.cmdOpen:displayOrder(button))

    The documentation states that the checkable state is false by default and if it is not checkable this should not be an issue, so I don't understand where this comes from. I use lots of pushbuttons without this problem but this is the only one that I have that passes an argument.

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