raise tabified dock widget

OSX, Qt4.7, PySide

I've googled extensively on this but have come up empty.

Is there a way to raise a tabified dock widget in a QMainWindow?

I've tried raise_(), activateWindow(), show(), setWindowState(....)

Edit: I did manage to get raise() to work, but not in the same call.

Code:

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def openProject(self,project_name):
   if self.openProjects.has_key(project_name):
      self.openProjects[project_name].raise_()  # WORKS
   else:
      project = Project(project_name)
      self.openProjects[project_name] = project
      ...... # get last widget tabified
      self.mainWindow.tabifyDockWidget(previous_project, project)
      project.raise_() # DOES NOT WORK ??

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I've tried signals, setFocus...not sure why it will not work subsequent to tabifying.