QTableWidget updating columns in a single row

[Sara Lochtie]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:51:04 AM UTC-7, Vincent Vande Vyvre wrote:
Thanks. I think I should be able to figure out from here. I appreciate all of the help!



> Le 24/04/2013 19:12, Sara Lochtie a écrit :
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> > On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:22:29 PM UTC-7, Sara Lochtie wrote:
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> >> I have written a GUI that gets data sent to it in real time and this data is displayed in a table. Every time data is sent in it is displayed in the table in a new row. My problem is that I would like to have the data just replace the old in the first row.
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> >> The table has 6 columns (A, B, C, D, E, F) I want the new data to continue replacing the old data in the same row unless the data that goes under column A changes, at which point a new row would be added.
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> >> Does anyone have tips on how to approach this? I can post a portion of my code to get a better idea of what I have done.
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> > So that is where I am stuck. I don't how to compare them and I am trying to avoiding saving the data to a file.
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> > This is the code that I have:
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> > if msg.arg2() != ERROR:
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> >   		    	entry = (A, B, C, D, E, F)	
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> > 		    	self.data.append(entry)
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> >          data = self.data
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> >          # Display how many runs occurred
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> >          self.statusBar().showMessage('Data read. %s Run(s) Occurred.' % self.runCount)
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> >          # Populates table by adding only new entries to the end of the table
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> >          lastRow = self.table.rowCount()
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> >          self.table.setRowCount(len(data))
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> >          for entryPos in range(lastRow, len(data)):
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> >              for fieldPos in range(6):
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> >                  item = QtGui.QTableWidgetItem(str(data[entryPos][fieldPos]))
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> >                  self.table.setItem(entryPos, fieldPos, item)
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> >          self.table.resizeColumnsToContents()
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> >          self.table.horizontalHeader().setStretchLastSection(True)    	
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> >          self.currentRunLabel.setText('Current Run: ' + str(self.runCount))
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> >          self.currentLineLabel.setText('Number of lines: ' + str(len(self.data)))
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> > 		print('End of %s. run:    %s. entries found' % (self.runCount, len(self.data)))
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> As sayed by Chris "Kwpolska", you can compare the new data with the data 
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> Something like that:
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>   # Get the content of row 0, column A
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> first = str(self.table.item(0, 0).text())
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> for entryPos in range(lastRow, len(data)):
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>      if str(data[entryPos][0]) == first:
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>          self.update_first_row(data[entryPos])
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>      else:
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>          self.add_new_row(data[entryPos])
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> -- 
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> Vincent V.V.
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