Limit number of displayed float digits in pyQT QLineEdit without sacrificing internal accuracy

I'm using QLineEdit widgets in my application to enter and edit numeric (float) values. I would like to display a rounded version of the float value while keeping the full internal accuracy. Only when editing a QLineEdit field, the full number of digits should be displayed.

This is needed for three reasons:

complex values need way too much space for my GUI
The UI allows to select between log and linear representation and I'd like to hide the resulting numeric inaccuracies.
Simply rounding the value contained and displayed in QLineEdit is not an option as I would lose accuracy when editing the displayed value

Does anybody know a neat solution for this problem?

Below you find a MWE, the full code (pyfda) uses dynamic instantiation of widgets and other ugly stuff.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import print_function, division
import numpy as np
import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui

class InputNumFields(QtGui.QWidget):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        super(InputNumFields, self).__init__(parent)
        self.edit_input_float = 10*np.log10(np.pi) # store in log format
        self._init_UI()

    def _init_UI(self):    
        self.edit_input = QtGui.QLineEdit()
        self.edit_input.editingFinished.connect(self.store_entries)
        self.lay_g_main = QtGui.QGridLayout()
        self.lay_g_main.addWidget(self.edit_input, 0, 0)
        self.setLayout(self.lay_g_main)
        self.get_entries()

    def store_entries(self):
        """ Store text entry as log float"""
        self.edit_input_float = 10*np.log10(float(self.edit_input.text()))
        self.get_entries()

    def get_entries(self):
        """ Retrieve float value, delog and convert to string """
        self.edit_input.setText(str(10**(self.edit_input_float/10)))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    mainw = InputNumFields(None)
    app.setActiveWindow(mainw) 
    mainw.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

Solution

It seems that the behaviour should be this:

When the line-edit loses input focus, display the stored value rounded
When the line-edit gains input focus, display the stored value in full
Whenever editing finishes, store the full current value in log format

This implies that rounding must not occur when return or enter is pressed (because the line-edit would not lose focus in that case).

The above behaviour can be achieved with the following changes:

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

class InputNumFields(QtGui.QWidget):
    ...

    def _init_UI(self):
        self.edit_input = QtGui.QLineEdit()
        self.edit_input.installEventFilter(self)
        ...

    def eventFilter(self, source, event):
        if (event.type() == QtCore.QEvent.FocusIn and
            source is self.edit_input):
            self.get_entries()
        return super(InputNumFields, self).eventFilter(source, event)

    def get_entries(self):
        value = 10**(self.edit_input_float/10)
        if not self.edit_input.hasFocus():
            value = round(value, 3)
        self.edit_input.setText(str(value))

PS:

You should probably add a button or something to your example, so you can test the effects of changing focus.