[PyQt] Memory leak when using QAbstractTableModel

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 20 December 2007, Noam Raphael wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I created a simple program which uses QAbstractTableModel to display a
> table with 1000x1000 cells. It works, but if I enlarge the window and
> scroll a little bit the memory consumption of the program jumps to the
> skies (If I weren't careful, my system would have stuck.)
>
> Here's the program. I'm using PyQt 4.3-2ubuntu7 on Ubuntu 7.10.
>
> ==========================
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import sys
> from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
> from PyQt4.QtCore import Qt
>
> class TableModel(QtCore.QAbstractTableModel):
>     def rowCount(self, index):
>         return 1000
>
>     def columnCount(self, index):
>         return 1000
>
>     def data(self, index, role):
>         return QtCore.QVariant(str((index.row(), index.column())))
>
>     def headerData(self, col, orientation, role):
>         if orientation == Qt.Horizontal and role == Qt.DisplayRole:
>             return QtCore.QVariant(str(col))
>         if orientation == Qt.Vertical and role == Qt.DisplayRole:
>             return QtCore.QVariant(str(col))
>         return QtCore.QVariant()
>
>
> def main():
>     app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
>
>     model = TableModel()
>     tableView = QtGui.QTableView()
>     tableView.setModel(model)
>
>     tableView.show()
>     sys.exit(app.exec_())
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     main()
> ==========================
>
> Is there some way I can solve this?

Works fine for me with current versions.

Phil