from PySide import QtCore, QtGui


class MyItem(QtGui.QStandardItem):
    '''This is the item I'd like to drop into the view'''

    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(MyItem, self).__init__(parent)

class ReceivingView(QtGui.QListView):
    '''Custom view to show the problem - i.e. the dropEvent produces a QStandardItem rather than MyItem'''

    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(ReceivingView, self).__init__(parent)

    def dropEvent(self, event):
        # let the default behaviour do it's thing:
        super(ReceivingView, self).dropEvent(event)

        # now show received item is QStandardItem, not the sent custom item
        item = self.model().item(self.model().rowCount() - 1)
        print item

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys

    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)

    mw = QtGui.QMainWindow()
    w = QtGui.QSplitter()
    mw.setCentralWidget(w)

    # models
    model1 = QtGui.QStandardItemModel()
    model2 = QtGui.QStandardItemModel()

    for i in xrange(20):
        #item = QtGui.QStandardItem()
        item = MyItem()
        item.setData(str(i), QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole)
        model1.appendRow(item)

    # views
    view1 = QtGui.QListView()
    view2 = ReceivingView()
    for v in (view1, view2):
        v.setViewMode(QtGui.QListView.IconMode)

    view1.setModel(model1)
    view2.setModel(model2)

    w.addWidget(view1)
    w.addWidget(view2)

    mw.show()
    mw.raise_()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())