Mastering GUI Programming with Python

Inserting a table

The last thing we're going to insert in our invoice is a table containing our line items. QTextTable is a subclass of QTextFrame, and just like a frame, we'll need to create a format object for it before we can create the table itself.

The class we need is the QTextTableFormat class:

        table_format = qtg.QTextTableFormat()        table_format.setHeaderRowCount(1)        table_format.setWidth(            qtg.QTextLength(qtg.QTextLength.PercentageLength, 100))

Here, we've configured the headerRowCount property, which indicates that the first row is a header row and should be repeated at the top of each page. This is equivalent to putting the first row in a <thead> tag in markup.

We're also setting the width, but instead of using pixel values, we're ...