PyQt MimeData Filename
<p>I am essentially repeating a question that was asked (but not answered) in the comments of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8568500/pyqt-getting-file-name-for-file-dropped-in-app">PyQt: Getting file name for file dropped in app</a> . </p>

<p>What I'd like to be able to do, a la that post, is convert an output from a file drop event in pyqt that currently looks like this:
 <code>/.file/id=6571367.661326</code> into an <code>actual file path (i.e. /.Documents/etc./etc./myProject/fileNeeded.extension)</code> </p>

<p>so that I can make use of the file that made the attempted QDropEvent. how to do this. Any thoughts?</p>

<p>EDIT:
As mentioned below in the comments, this appears to be a platform specific problem. I am running Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)</p>