if line edit is empty put in a string

[birdieman]

I am trying to see if a line edit is empty, and if so, put the word Other in it.  What I have so far crashes

        if len(self.ui.carlabel) == 0:
            self.ui.carlabel.setText(str('Other'))

by the way, "carlabel" is a line edit, not a label
thanks

[snippsat]

Shall we guess on what GUI you use?

[birdieman]

sorry, I am using PyQt5 -- but I think I just need to know if (1) is the IF statement the correct way to see if a line edit is empty? and (2) the syntax of putting the word Other into a line edit. For now, assume the self.ui part is correct. thanks for responding

[Ofnuts]

Statement likely incorrect. You are taking the length of the widget, not of the text inside it. Try

if len(self.ui.carlabel.text()) == 0:
if len(self.ui.carlabel.getText()) == 0:

or whatever method gets you the text of the widget.

[buran]

I would try

if not self.ui.carlabel.text():
   self.ui.carlabel.setText('Other')

[birdieman]

thanks to all of you