PYQT5 crashing when calling .text() on a QLineEdit widget

Question

When I run the code below my program crashes, and I believe this is to-do with the .text() called when the Line edit has something typed in it. I need to assign a variable to what is entered here.

import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
from PyQt5 import QtWidgets

class loginScreen(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.initUI()

    def initUI(self):
        usernameBox = QtWidgets.QLineEdit()
        usernameBox.textChanged.connect(self.myfunc)

        vArrangement = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
        vArrangement.addWidget(usernameBox)
        self.setLayout(vArrangement)

        self.show()

    def myfunc(self):
        x = usernameBox.text()
        print(x)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    ex = loginScreen()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

Answer 1

If you observe usernameBox it is created as a local variable so it can not be accessed by the other methods of the class, in your case there are 2 solutions:

• Make a usernameBox attribute of the class.

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class loginScreen(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.initUI()

    def initUI(self):
        self.usernameBox = QtWidgets.QLineEdit()
        self.usernameBox.textChanged.connect(self.myfunc)

        vArrangement = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
        vArrangement.addWidget(self.usernameBox)
        self.setLayout(vArrangement)

        self.show()

    def myfunc(self):
        x = self.usernameBox.text()
        print(x)

• Or use sender() that obtains the object that emits the signal, in your case the QLineEdit .

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class loginScreen(QtWidgets.QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.initUI()

    def initUI(self):
        usernameBox = QtWidgets.QLineEdit()
        usernameBox.textChanged.connect(self.myfunc)

        vArrangement = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
        vArrangement.addWidget(usernameBox)
        self.setLayout(vArrangement)

        self.show()

    def myfunc(self):
        x = self.sender().text()
        print(x)