Question

i have the following code defining the gui of my app

class Ui (object):
    def setupUi():
        self.tableName = QtGui.QTableWidget(self.layoutWidget_20)
        self.tableName.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("twHistoricoDisciplinas"))
        self.tableName.setColumnCount(4)
        self.tableName.setRowCount(3)

and the following code in my app

class MainWindow(QtGui.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        self.ui = Ui()
        self.ui.setupUi(self)
        self.createtable()

    #creating a tw cell
    def cell(self,var=""):
            item = QtGui.QTableWidgetItem()
            item.setText(var)
            return item

    def createtable(self):
         rows = self.tableName.rowCount()
         columns = self.tableName.columnCount()
         for i in range(rows):
             for j in range(columns):
                 item = self.cell("text")
                 self.ui.tableName.setItem(i, j, item)

I want to be able to add new rows and columns and edit them but i want to lock some of the cells. ( i already have code that expand the table )
how can i make some cells read only while keeping the others read write?
i found this link How to make a column in QTableWidget read only? with a solution for the problem in C++, is python solution similar ?

EDIT: Removed the answer from the post and pasted as an answer

Answer 1

I played a little with the code and read some more documentation
the answer to the problem is

def createtable(self):
     rows = self.tableName.rowCount()
     columns = self.tableName.columnCount()
     for i in range(rows):
         for j in range(columns):
             item = self.cell("text")
             # execute the line below to every item you need locked
             item.setFlags(QtCore.Qt.ItemIsEnabled)
             self.ui.tableName.setItem(i, j, item)

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The solution is the line “item.setFlags(QtCore.Qt.ItemIsEnabled)”, you use it to set the cell property QtCore.Qt.ItemIsEnabled to disabled, so you can’t select or edit the cell

You can change a number of other properties this way at runtime as per documentarion on http://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/qt.html under the section Qt::ItemFlag

as mentioned in a comment by Sven on the second answer to this question, if you have a static number of rows and columns in your QTableWidgetItem you can select the properties of the cells with Qtdesigner if you use it to create the screens for your application