Properties shadowing methods and missing functions

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Hi all,
I am new to the concept of pythonqt and find it fascinating. Great work!
I am working from the python side, so please keep that in mind.

I am trying to access QGraphicsWidget layout property from python but apparently cannot.
When I set it via setLayout(), it seems to work, but retrieving it is not working. I always get None from QGraphicsWidget.layout
The method layout() is not available, which if I understand correctly, the philosophy of pythonqt is to expose the property to be able to atribute a value to it from python and python methods cannot have the same name as properties.
But if I instantiate and do obj.layout = QGraphicsGridLayout() I get an error that layout is a pointer and cannot receive an object.
Can someone comment on this issues and help me understand it better? I am willing to help but I there are some things about python that I do not fully understand yet.

Other issues I've encountered
missing function: QMetaObject has no connectSlotsByName
Operators are not accessible via python. Example: QDataStream >>operator

Thanks