from PyQt4 import QtCore
from PyQt4 import QtGui


# This works
i = QtGui.QIcon()
qi = QtCore.QVariant(i)


# This throws TypeError: argument 1 of QVariant() has invalid type
class C:
	def __init__(self, v):
		self.value = v

x = C(100)
qx = QtCore.QVariant(x)