Using a QCompleter in a QTableView with Qt and Python

Question

I'm reading up on how to make my QAbstractTableModel editable, and it looks pretty straightforward.

But how do I set up an editable cell to use a QCompleter? I take it somehow I have to tell the QTableView to use a QLineEdit widget? How can I do this?

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edit: hmm, I guess it has something with QTableView.setItemDelegateForColumn() but I don't know anything about delegates or how to use them.

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edit: I tried RobbieE's solution, got something that sort of works but it gets the geometry of the popup combo box wrong and crashes Python when I press Enter.

class CompleterDelegate(QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate):
    def __init__(self, parent=None, completerSetupFunction=None):
        super(CompleterDelegate, self).__init__(parent)
        self._completerSetupFunction = completerSetupFunction
    def createEditor(self, parent, option, index):
        return QtGui.QLineEdit(parent)
    def setEditorData(self, editor, index):
        super(CompleterDelegate, self).setEditorData(editor, index)
        self._completerSetupFunction(editor, index)

My _completerSetupFunction looks something like this:

def setupFunc(editor, index):
    completer = MyCompleter(editor)
    completer.setCompletionColumn(0)
    completer.setCompletionRole(QtCore.Qt.DisplayRole)
    completer.setCaseSensitivity(QtCore.Qt.CaseInsensitive)    
    editor.setCompleter(completer)
    completer.setModel(myAbstractItemModel)

Answer 1

Per RobbieE's suggestion, I subclassed QStyledItemDelegate. But the correct place to apply the completer is when the editor is created, not setEditorData.

class CompleterDelegate(QtGui.QStyledItemDelegate):
    def __init__(self, parent=None, completerSetupFunction=None):
        super(CompleterDelegate, self).__init__(parent)
        self._completerSetupFunction = completerSetupFunction
    def createEditor(self, parent, option, index):
        editor = QtGui.QLineEdit(parent)
        self._completerSetupFunction(editor, index)
        return editor

and then I use a completerSetupFunction that basically looks like this:

def _completerSetupFunction(editor, index):
    print "completer setup: editor=%s, index=%s" % (editor, index)
    completer = QtGui.QCompleter(base_items, editor)
    completer.setCompletionColumn(0)
    completer.setCompletionRole(QtCore.Qt.EditRole)
    completer.setCaseSensitivity(QtCore.Qt.CaseInsensitive)
    try:    
        editor.setCompleter(completer)            
    except:
        pass

Here's a complete example as a github gist.