Beginner: Formatting text output (PyQt4)

[Glen]

Hello again,  I don't blame anyone for not answering my last post, since I
obviously hadn't spent much time researching, but I've come a little ways
and have another question.

How can I better format text output to a QTextEdit object?  I'm inserting
5 columns into each row.  When I write the info to a file, it looks like
the following:

42: 115     26: 114     35: 112     19: 108     16: 107     
45: 107     40: 106      5: 105     41: 104      2: 103     
 9: 102     48: 102     15: 101     22: 101     27: 101     
39: 101     43: 101     10: 100      6:  99     34:  99     
32:  98     49:  98     20:  97     30:  97      8:  96     
17:  96     38:  96     12:  95     14:  95     37:  95     
 4:  94     13:  94     44:  94     36:  93      3:  92     
24:  92     28:  92     31:  91     29:  89      7:  88     
 1:  87     18:  85     46:  85     33:  84     11:  83     
23:  83     47:  82     25:  80     21:  79     50:  56     
52:  39     51:  38     53:  36     54:  25     55:  18     

When I write the contents of the file to my TextEdit object it comes out
uneven, something like this:
42: 115    26: 114    35: 112    19: 108    16: 107    
45: 107    40: 106    5: 105    41: 104     2: 103    
9: 102    48: 102    15: 101    22: 101    27: 101    
39: 101    43: 101    10: 100    6:  99    34:  99    
32:  98    49:  98    20:  97    30:  97    8:  96    
17:  96    38:  96    12:  95    14:  95    37:  95    
4:  94    13:  94    44:  94    36:  93    3:  92    
24:  92    28:  92    31:  91    29:  89    7:  88    
 1:  87    18:  85    46:  85    33:  84    11:  83    
23:  83    47:  82    25:  80    21:  79    50:  56    
52:  39    51:  38    53:  36    54:  25    55:  18  

What seems to be happening is that the font that pyqt is using is not
fixed width, so I did this:
	qTxtFormat = QTextCharFormat()
	qTxtFormat.setFontFixedPitch(True)
	ui.textEdit.setCurrentCharFormat(qTxtFormat)

Also, I tried using the pyqt formatting such as the following:

	qStr = QtCore.QString( QtCore.QString( str(tL2[i][0]) ).rightJustified(2)
	+ ':' + QtCore.QString( str(tL2[i][1]) ).rightJustified(4) )
This still gives me uneven columns.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Glen