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Can I attach objects to QListWidgetItems in PyQt?

Is it possible to set/get a object for an item in a QListWidget the same way you set/get the text of the item?

Solution

  • There's QListWidgetItem.setData:

    item = QListWidgetItem('Text', parent)
data = ('foo', 'bar', [1, 2, 3])
item.setData(Qt.UserRole, data)
...
# QVariant version 1 API (python2 default)
print item.data(Qt.UserRole).toPyObject()
# QVariant version 2 API (python3 default)
print item.data(Qt.UserRole)