[PyQt] About dimensions of QAbstractTableModel

[Vicent Mas]

Hi,

originally I posted this question the the long thread "Bugs galore in 
QAbstractTableModel" but I'm suspicious the question has just been missed 
because I got no answer and that thread seems now mainly devoted to modtest.py 
So I've decided to resend my question with a new Subject. I hope I'm not being 
too impatient.

2010/11/28 Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:
> On 27.11.10 21:27:55, Ian wrote:

> [...]
>
>>     def rowCount(self, parent = None):
>>         ''' return No of rows of data. parent is a QModelIndex '''
>>         return len(self.view)
>
> This is wrong, even for table models you have to take care to return the
> right number of rows depending on the parent. That means if your model
> gets asked for the rowCount with a valid parent, you want to return 0
> (as you don't have childs under any of your rows). So check for
> parent.isValid().
>
>>     def columnCount(self, parent = None):
>>         ''' return number of columns. parent = QModelIndex()
>>            id, name, cubref, address, town, contacts
>>         '''
>>         return 6
>
> Basically the same here as above, though I think this is not quite as
> critical.
>

Hi Andreas,

Are you sure about this? Does it mean that the example given in the
page 428 of Summerfield's book "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt" is 
wrong?
Also I find misleading the Qt documentation regarding this subject
(right now I can only have a look to the Qt-6 docs). On one side the
QAbstractItemModel.rowCount documentation agrees with you (or
vice versa :-). But reading the "Model Subclassing Reference" page,
section "Read-only access" one can see:

"
rowCount()      Provides the number of rows of data exposed by the model.
These four functions must be implemented in all types of model,
including list models (QAbstractListModel subclasses) and table models
(QAbstractTableModel subclasses).

Additionally, the following functions must be implemented in direct
subclasses of QAbstractTableModel and QAbstractItemModel:

columnCount()   Provides the number of columns of data exposed by the
model. List models do not provide this function because it is already
implemented in QAbstractListModel.
"

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious (it wouldn't be the first time
that I've issues with the Qt documentation regarding models and views).

Vicent
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