Python PyQt - QTableWidget, JSON, and emitSignal causing blank cells

Question

I am using PyQt for a simple application that reads from a log file with JSON formatted strings, and outputs them nicely in a table.

Everything is working as expected e

Answer 1

I think solution is to disable sorting while populating table by calling QTableWidget.setSortingEnabled(False), and then restore sorting.

Example code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

class MainWindow(QtGui.QWidget):
    updateSignal = QtCore.pyqtSignal()
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(MainWindow, self).__init__(parent)
        self.table_widget = QtGui.QTableWidget()
        self.button = QtGui.QPushButton('Populate')
        self.button.clicked.connect(self.populate)
        layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        layout.addWidget(self.table_widget)
        layout.addWidget(self.button)
        self.setLayout(layout)
        self.updateSignal.connect(self.update_table)
        self.populate()

    def populate(self):
        nrows, ncols = 5, 2
        self.table_widget.setSortingEnabled(False)
        self.table_widget.setRowCount(nrows)
        self.table_widget.setColumnCount(ncols)
        for i in range(nrows):
            for j in range(ncols):
                item = QtGui.QTableWidgetItem('%s%s' % (i, j))
                self.table_widget.setItem(i, j, item)
        self.updateSignal.emit()
        self.table_widget.setSortingEnabled(True)

    def update_table(self):
        self.table_widget.sortItems(0,QtCore.Qt.DescendingOrder)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    wnd = MainWindow()
    wnd.resize(640, 480)
    wnd.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())