Sorting in pyqt tablewidget

Question

How can I sort a coloumn in pyqt by the highest number? Currently I have setSortingEnabled(True) and that only sorts it by the most numbers (ex. 1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3) i want to do it by the highest number for example (ex. 58,25,15,10). Thanks!

Data Update:

def setmydata(self):
    for n, key in enumerate(self.data):
        for m, item in enumerate(self.data[key]):
            newitem = QtGui.QTableWidgetItem(item)
            self.setItem(m, n, newitem)

Whole code:

import sys
from PyQt4.QtGui import QTableWidget 
from PyQt4 import QtGui,QtCore,Qt
import MySQLdb as mdb
from functools import partial
import time
class Window(QtGui.QDialog):
    process_column_signal = QtCore.pyqtSignal()
    def __init__(self,parent=None):
        super(Window, self).__init__()
        self.layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self)
        self.db = mdb.connect('serv','user','pass','db')
        self.model = self.db.cursor()
        self.initialData = self.get_data_status()
        self.table1 = MyTableStatus(self.initialData, 145, 4)
        callback = partial(self.process_column,self.table1)
        self.process_column_signal.connect(callback)        
        self.layout.addWidget(self.table1)  
        self.timer_status = QtCore.QTimer()
        self.timer_status.timeout.connect(self.updateAllViews)
        self.timer_status.timeout.connect(self.some_method)
        # check every half-second
        self.timer_status.start(1000*5)
    def some_method(self):
        self.process_column_signal.emit()

    def get_data_status(self):
        self.model.execute("""SELECT cpu_juliet,cpu,cpu_julietleft FROM status
                              WHERE date = (SELECT MAX(date) FROM status)""")        
        rows_status_cpu = self.model.fetchone()
        self.listb1 = ['%s' % rows_status_cpu[0],'%s' % rows_status_cpu[2],'%s' % rows_status_cpu[1],'%s' % rows_status_cpu[1]]#['%s %s' % self.rows_status]
        self.model.execute("""SELECT disk_queue_juliet FROM status
                              WHERE date = (SELECT MAX(date) FROM status)""")        
        rows_status_disk_queue = self.model.fetchone()        
        self.lista1 = 'Juliet','Julietleft','Pong','Hulk'
        self.listc1 = ['%s' % rows_status_disk_queue,'%s' % rows_status_disk_queue,'%s' % rows_status_disk_queue,'%s' % rows_status_disk_queue ]
        if self.listb1[0] >= '80' or self.listc1[0] >= '9':
            server_status_Juliet = 'WARNING'
        else:
            server_status_Juliet = 'Normal'
        if self.listb1[1] >= '80' or self.listc1[1] >= '9':
            server_status_Julietleft = 'WARNING'
        else:
            server_status_Julietleft = 'Normal'
        if self.listb1[2] >= '80' or self.listc1[2] >= '9':
            server_status_Pong = 'WARNING'
        else:
            server_status_Pong = 'Normal'
        if self.listb1[3] >= '80' or self.listc1[3] >= '9':
            server_status_Hulk = 'WARNING'
        else:
            server_status_Hulk = 'Normal'
        self.listd1 = ['%s' % server_status_Juliet,'%s' % server_status_Julietleft,'%s' % server_status_Pong,'%s' % server_status_Hulk]
#        if server_status_Hulk == "WARNING": #or server_status_Pong == "WARNING" or server_status_Julietleft == "WARNING" or server_status_Juliet == "WARNING":
#            self.serverstatus.setStyleSheet("QTabWidget {color: red}")
        #status label conditions
        self.mystruct1 = {'A':self.lista1, 'B':self.listb1, 'C':self.listc1, 'D':self.listd1} 
        return self.mystruct1

    def updateAllViews(self):
        _ = self.get_data_status()
        self.updateTable()

    def updateTable(self):
        self.table1.updateFromDict(self.mystruct1)
    def process_column(table1, processCol=1):
        colCount = table1.table1.rowCount()
        for row in xrange(table1.table1.rowCount()):
            for col in xrange(4):
                try:
                    item = table1.table1.item(row, 3)
                    text = item.text()
                    if (float(text) >= 20.0 ):
                        for col in xrange(colCount):
                            print row
                            item = table1.table1.item(row,col)
                            item.setBackground(QtGui.QBrush(QtCore.Qt.yellow))
                except:
                    pass


class MyTableStatus(QTableWidget):
    def __init__(self, thestruct, *args): 
        QTableWidget.__init__(self, *args)
        self.setSizePolicy(QtGui.QSizePolicy.Fixed, QtGui.QSizePolicy.Preferred)
        self.setHorizontalHeaderLabels(['Server', 'Avg. Disk Queue','CPU Load',"Status"])
        self.setSortingEnabled(False)


        self.data = {}
        self.setmydata()

    def updateFromDict(self, aDict):
        self.data.clear()
        self.data.update(aDict)

        self.setmydata()

    def setmydata(self):
        for n, key in enumerate(self.data):
            for m, item in enumerate(self.data[key]):
                newitem = QtGui.QTableWidgetItem(item)
                self.setItem(m, n, newitem)
def main():
   app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
   app.setStyle(QtGui.QStyleFactory.create("plastique"))
   main_window = Window()
   main_window.repaint()
   main_window.show() 
   sys.exit(app.exec_())

if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

Answer 1

Its sorting alpha-numerically (so, in terms of strings, '1', '10', '11', '12', '2', '20', '21', '22', '3', '4' etc. is the proper sort order. It appears that for a QTableWidgetItem, if you use the setData(Qt.EditRole, value) method, the sort order will work. Depending on your version of Qt (I assume) you may have to overload the less than method of your table widget item.

from PyQt4.QtCore import Qt, QVariant
from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication, QTableWidget, QTableWidgetItem

class MyTableWidgetItem(QTableWidgetItem):
    def __lt__(self, other):
        if ( isinstance(other, QTableWidgetItem) ):
            my_value, my_ok = self.data(Qt.EditRole).toInt()
            other_value, other_ok = other.data(Qt.EditRole).toInt()

            if ( my_ok and other_ok ):
                return my_value < other_value

        return super(MyTableWidgetItem, self).__lt__(other)

if ( __name__ == '__main__' ):
    app = None
    if ( QApplication.instance() is None ):
        app = QApplication([])

    widget = QTableWidget()
    widget.setWindowFlags(Qt.Dialog)
    widget.setSortingEnabled(True)

    widget.setRowCount(50)
    widget.setColumnCount(3)
    for row in range(50):
       # create a normal QTableWidgetItem
       a = QTableWidgetItem()
       a.setText(str(row))
       widget.setItem(row, 0, a)

       # create a proper sorted item
       b = QTableWidgetItem()
       b.setData(Qt.EditRole, QVariant(row))
       widget.setItem(row, 1, b)

       # create a custom sorted item
       c = MyTableWidgetItem()
       c.setData(Qt.EditRole, QVariant(row))
       widget.setItem(row, 2, c)

    widget.show()
    if ( app ):
        app.exec_()

Answer 2

An alternative to using a custom Item is to use a SortFilterProxy (which you probably should be doing anyway). In that case you can define a lessThan method that will be used for sorting. Here's mine:

class SortFilterProxyModel(QSortFilterProxyModel):

    def lessThan(self, left_index, right_index):

        left_var = left_index.data(Qt.EditRole)
        right_var = right_index.data(Qt.EditRole)

        try:
            return float(left_var) < float(right_var)
        except (ValueError, TypeError):
            pass
        return left_var < right_var

It uses the EditRole to get the data for sorting, so you can do whatever mapping for usability you want to do in the DisplayRole cases. It also just tries to do numerical sorting for values than can be converted to float , or native sorting otherwise. Not the most general approach, but seems to work well for me. YMMV.

Answer 3

Another possible solution to sort numeric could be, to add a special attribute and compare it based on that value. Mybe that is a more java like way.

class MyTableWidgetItem(QTableWidgetItem):

def __init__(self, value):
    QTableWidgetItem.__init__(self)
    self.value = value

def __lt__(self, other):
    if isinstance(other, MyTableWidgetItem):
        return self.value < other.value

    return super(QTableWidgetItem, self).__lt__(other)

Answer 4

A simpler way is to prepend a few blank spaces to your numeric text. The ascii value of ' ' is less than '0', so it will work as you want it to. Here is what I do:

element = str(num)                # convert to str
padded = ('     '+element)[-5:]   # make all elements the same length
item.setText(padded)