[PyQt] do set hints work QStandardItem?

[Matt Chambers]

using qt 4.2.2, pyqt 4.1.

some example code, it acts like a qstandarditem which contains an array 
with the entire row inside.  No matter
what I do to the size hint, the column size always starts out way to 
small to display the data.  Height, apparently
does work, its width that seems to have no effect.

class Group(QtGui.QStandardItem):
    def __init__(self,element):
        label = label = "%-4s/  %-4s" % (0,0);
        QtGui.QStandardItem.__init__(self,label)
        self.__element = element
       
        size = QtCore.QSize(400,-1)
        self.setSizeHint(size)
        print self.sizeHint().width()

        self.items = [self]
        self.items.append(QtGui.QStandardItem(""))
        self.items.append(QtGui.QStandardItem(element.get("name")))

Thanks

-Matt