Pyqt - QMenu dynamically populated and clicked

Question

I need to be able to know what item I've clicked in a dynamically generated menu system. I only want to know what I've clicked on, even if it's simply a string representation.

def populateShotInfoMenus(self):
    self.menuFilms = QMenu()
    films = self.getList()

    for film in films:
        menuItem_Film = self.menuFilms.addAction(film)
        self.connect(menuItem_Film, SIGNAL('triggered()'), self.onFilmSet)
        self.menuFilms.addAction(menuItem_Film)

def onFilmRightClick(self, value):
    self.menuFilms.exec_(self.group1_inputFilm.mapToGlobal(value))

def onFilmSet(self, value):
    print 'Menu Clicked ', value

Answer 1

Instead of using onFilmSet directly as the receiver of your connection, use a lambda function so you can pass additional parameters:

receiver = lambda film=film: self.onFilmSet(self, film)
self.connect(menuItem_Film, SIGNAL('triggered()'), receiver)

Answer 2

I found this answer here for dealing with this issue in PyQt5, python3. I don't like it, the bVal variable to be precise, as I don't fully understand it but it took a long time to find so I thought I'd share it here. The bVal picks up the boolean value from triggered and allows the taskType to be passed.

self.taskMenu = QtGui.QMenu("Task")
self.tasks = self.getTasks() #FETCHES A LIST OF LIST
self.menuTasks = QtGui.QMenu()

for item in self.tasks:
   menuItem_Task = self.taskMenu.addAction(item[1]) 
   receiver = lambda: bVal, taskType=item: self.setTask(bVal, taskType)
   menuItem_Task.triggered.connect(receiver)
   self.taskMenu.addAction(menuItem_Task)

def setTask(self, ignore_bVal, taskType):
   print taskType