PyQt: How to customize QComboBox item appearance

Question

Is it possible to create a combo-box item first, then set its display properties (such as background-color, icon, font-color, font-size, etc) and only then add it to the combo-box using QComoboBox.addItem() method? As it is now, I am stuck using:

myCombobox = QtGui.QComboBox
for i in range(10):
    myCombobox.addItem(str(i))

Needless to say this approach leaves little space for customization of the individual combo-box item's display properties. What I would like is something like this:

myCombobox = QtGui.QComboBox
for i in range(10):
    item = comboboxItem()
    item.setColor(allBlueAndShiny)
    font = QtGui.QFont()
    font.setPointSize(10)
    item.setFont(font)

    # Only after item was set with all display properties it is added:        
    myCombobox.addItem(str(i))

Edited later

Here is a working example of QCombobox's customized items. Thanks ekhumoro!

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from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore

def main():
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    window = QtGui.QWidget()
    main_layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
    # QComboBox
    combo = QtGui.QComboBox()
    model = combo.model()
    for row in range(10):
        item = QtGui.QStandardItem(str(row))
        item.setForeground(QtGui.QColor('red'))
        font = item.font()
        font.setPointSize(10)
        item.setFont(font)
        model.appendRow(item)
    main_layout.addWidget(combo) 

    ok_button = QtGui.QPushButton("OK")
    ok_button.clicked.connect(OK)      
    main_layout.addWidget(ok_button) 

    main_layout.addStretch(1)
    window.setLayout(main_layout)
    window.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

def OK(self):
    print 'OK'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Answer 1

By default, QComboBox uses a QStandardItemModel, so the QStandardItem methods can be used to change the various display properties:

combo = QComboBox()
model = combo.model()
for row in range(10):
    item = QStandardItem(str(row))
    item.setForeground(QColor('red'))
    font = item.font()
    font.setPointSize(10)
    item.setFont(font)
    model.appendRow(item)

PS:

If you want to reset one of the item properties, set it to None, like this:

    item = self.combo.model().item(row)
    item.setData(None, Qt.ForegroundRole)