Unable to open files from Python console editor

[qgib]

Author Name: Jesse Taylor (Jesse Taylor)
Original Redmine Issue: 13980
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:pyqgis_console

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When I click on the Open File button in the editor dialog in the Python console, QGIS fails to open the file browser and gives the following error:

@> An error has occured while executing Python code:

TypeError: QFileDialog.getOpenFileNames(QWidget parent=None, QString caption=QString(), QString directory=QString(), QString filter=QString(), QString selectedFilter=None, QFileDialog.Options options=0): argument 3 has unexpected type 'QDir'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/qgis/python/console/console.py", line 639, in openScriptFile
self, openFileTr, lastDirPath, "Script file (*.py)")
TypeError: QFileDialog.getOpenFileNames(QWidget parent=None, QString caption=QString(), QString directory=QString(), QString filter=QString(), QString selectedFilter=None, QFileDialog.Options options=0): argument 3 has unexpected type 'QDir'

Python version: 2.7.9 (default, Mar 1 2015, 13:01:26) [GCC 4.9.2]
QGIS version: 2.12.1-Lyon Lyon, exported

Python Path:
/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/processing
/usr/share/qgis/python
/home/jesse/.qgis2/python
/home/jesse/.qgis2/python/plugins
/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins
/usr/lib/python2.7
/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old
/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PILcompat
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7
/home/jesse/.qgis2//python
/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/fTools/tools
/home/jesse/gis/MappingWarAtHome@

This is happening on a fresh, default install of Debian 8 Jessie, using the build from:

deb http://qgis.org/debian jessie main
deb-src http://qgis.org/debian jessie main

[qgib]

Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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Works fine in master. Reopen if necessary

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• resolution was changed from to worksforme
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed