Set minimum column width to header width in PyQt4 QTableWidget

Question

I'm working with the QTableWidget component in PyQt4 and I can't seem to get columns to size correctly, according to their respective header lengths.

Here's what the table layout should look like (sans pipes, obviously):

Index | Long_Header | Longer_Header
1     | 102402      | 100
2     | 123123      | 2
3     | 454689      | 18

The code I'm working with looks something like this:

import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import QStringList, QString
from PyQt4.QtGui  import QApplication, QMainWindow, QSizePolicy
from PyQt4.QtGui  import QTableWidget, QTableWidgetItem

def createTable():
    table = QTableWidget(5, 3)
    table.setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy.Expanding, QSizePolicy.Expanding)

    headers = QStringList()
    headers.append(QString("Index"))
    headers.append(QString("Long_Header"))
    headers.append(QString("Longer_Header"))

    table.setHorizontalHeaderLabels(headers)
    table.horizontalHeader().setStretchLastSection(True)

    # ignore crappy names -- this is just an example :)
    cell1 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("1"))
    cell2 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("102402"))
    cell3 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("100"))

    cell4 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("2"))
    cell5 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("123123"))
    cell6 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("2"))

    cell7 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("3"))
    cell8 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("454689"))
    cell9 = QTableWidgetItem(QString("18"))

    table.setItem(0, 0, cell1)
    table.setItem(0, 1, cell2)
    table.setItem(0, 2, cell3)
    table.setItem(1, 0, cell4)
    table.setItem(1, 1, cell5)
    table.setItem(1, 2, cell6)
    table.setItem(2, 0, cell7)
    table.setItem(2, 1, cell8)
    table.setItem(2, 2, cell9)

    return table

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    mainW = QMainWindow()

    mainW.setMinimumWidth(300)
    mainW.setCentralWidget(createTable())

    mainW.show()

    app.exec_()

When the application executes, the first column is quite wide while the other columns are somewhat compressed.

Is there a way to force the table to size according to the header widths, rather than the data itself? Better yet, is there a way to force each column width to be the maximum width of the data and header values?

Update: I've tried calling resizeColumnsToContents() on the table, but the view becomes horribly mangled:

Python Table http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/8633/tablef.png

** Update2**: resizeColumnsToContents() works just fine as long as it's called after all cells and headers have been inserted into the table.

Answer 1

table.resizeColumnsToContents()

should do the trick for this specific example.

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