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PySide2, how to stretch the QTableWidget to fit Window witdh?

I am trying to have a QTableWidget stretch horizontaly to fit the window width but I can't find how to do it. I am new to Qt.

The floowing code snippet and image show that, on resizing horizontaly the program window, the QLineEdit stretches to fit the window width but the QTableWidget doesn't.

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import sys
from PySide2.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QVBoxLayout, QLineEdit, QTableWidget

app = QApplication(sys.argv)

win = QWidget()
win.setWindowTitle('test')
win.setMinimumWidth(400)

layV1 = QVBoxLayout()
win.setLayout(layV1)

entry = QLineEdit(win)
entry.setPlaceholderText('test entry widget')
layV1.addWidget(entry)

table = QTableWidget(win)
table.setRowCount(10)
table.setColumnCount(5)
layV1.addWidget(table)

win.show()
app.exec_()
Solution

  • You can use this to stretch the last section :

    table.horizontalHeader().setStretchLastSection(True)

    If you want to stretch a specific column, you need to use a QHeaderView. Quick example with your code.

    headerView = QHeaderView(QtCore.Qt.Horizontal, table)
table.setHorizontalHeader(headerView)
headerView.setSectionResizeMode(2, QHeaderView.Stretch)
headerView.setSectionsClickable(True)

    Just replace 2 by the desired column to stretch!