Undo edit of QListWidgetItem?

[neuronet]

Note this is a repost of a question at Stack Overflow that I just put a bounty on:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...tem-in-qt-pyqt

Short version

How do you implement undo functionality for edits made on QListWidgetItems?

Details

I am using a QListWidget to learn my way around PyQt's Undo Framework (with the help of an article on the topic: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1187104). I am fine with undo/redo when I implement a command myself (like deleting an item from the list). Below is a full code example that shows a list, lets you delete items,and undo/redo such deletions. The application displays the list on the right, and the undo stack on the left.

The problem is, I also want to make the QListWidgetItems in the widget editable. This is easy enough: just add the ItemIsEditable flag to each item. But how do I push such edits onto the undo stack, so I can then undo/redo them?

Simple working example

from PySide import QtGui, QtCore
 
class TodoList(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self)
        self.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose)
        self.initUI()
        self.show()
 
    def initUI(self):
        self.todoList = self.makeTodoList()
        self.undoStack = QtGui.QUndoStack(self)
        undoView = QtGui.QUndoView(self.undoStack)
        buttonLayout = self.buttonSetup()
        mainLayout = QtGui.QHBoxLayout(self)
        mainLayout.addWidget(undoView)
        mainLayout.addWidget(self.todoList)
        mainLayout.addLayout(buttonLayout)
        self.setLayout(mainLayout)
        self.makeConnections()
 
    def buttonSetup(self):
        #Make buttons 
        self.deleteButton = QtGui.QPushButton("Delete")
        self.undoButton = QtGui.QPushButton("Undo")
        self.redoButton = QtGui.QPushButton("Redo")
        self.quitButton = QtGui.QPushButton("Quit")
        #Lay them out
        buttonLayout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        buttonLayout.addWidget(self.deleteButton)
        buttonLayout.addStretch()
        buttonLayout.addWidget(self.undoButton)
        buttonLayout.addWidget(self.redoButton)
        buttonLayout.addStretch()
        buttonLayout.addWidget(self.quitButton)
        return buttonLayout
 
    def makeConnections(self):
        self.deleteButton.clicked.connect(self.deleteItem)
        self.quitButton.clicked.connect(self.close)
        self.undoButton.clicked.connect(self.undoStack.undo)
        self.redoButton.clicked.connect(self.undoStack.redo)
 
    def deleteItem(self):
        rowSelected=self.todoList.currentRow()
        rowItem = self.todoList.item(rowSelected)
        if rowItem is None:
            return
        command = CommandDelete(self.todoList, rowItem, rowSelected,
                                "Delete item '{0}'".format(rowItem.text()))
        self.undoStack.push(command)
 
    def makeTodoList(self):
        todoList = QtGui.QListWidget()
        allTasks = ('Fix door', 'Make dinner', 'Read', 
                    'Program in PySide', 'Be nice to everyone')
        for task in allTasks:
            todoItem=QtGui.QListWidgetItem(task)
            todoList.addItem(todoItem)
            todoItem.setFlags(QtCore.Qt.ItemIsSelectable | QtCore.Qt.ItemIsEnabled)
        return todoList
 
 
class CommandDelete(QtGui.QUndoCommand):
    def __init__(self, listWidget, item, row, description):
        super(CommandDelete, self).__init__(description)
        self.listWidget = listWidget
        self.string = item.text()
        self.row = row
 
    def redo(self):
        self.listWidget.takeItem(self.row)
 
    def undo(self):
        addItem = QtGui.QListWidgetItem(self.string)
        addItem.setFlags(QtCore.Qt.ItemIsSelectable | QtCore.Qt.ItemIsEnabled)
        self.listWidget.insertItem(self.row, addItem)
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    myList=TodoList()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

from PySide import QtGui, QtCore

class TodoList(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self)
        self.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_DeleteOnClose)
        self.initUI()
        self.show()

    def initUI(self):
        self.todoList = self.makeTodoList()
        self.undoStack = QtGui.QUndoStack(self)
        undoView = QtGui.QUndoView(self.undoStack)
        buttonLayout = self.buttonSetup()
        mainLayout = QtGui.QHBoxLayout(self)
        mainLayout.addWidget(undoView)
        mainLayout.addWidget(self.todoList)
        mainLayout.addLayout(buttonLayout)
        self.setLayout(mainLayout)
        self.makeConnections()

    def buttonSetup(self):
        #Make buttons 
        self.deleteButton = QtGui.QPushButton("Delete")
        self.undoButton = QtGui.QPushButton("Undo")
        self.redoButton = QtGui.QPushButton("Redo")
        self.quitButton = QtGui.QPushButton("Quit")
        #Lay them out
        buttonLayout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        buttonLayout.addWidget(self.deleteButton)
        buttonLayout.addStretch()
        buttonLayout.addWidget(self.undoButton)
        buttonLayout.addWidget(self.redoButton)
        buttonLayout.addStretch()
        buttonLayout.addWidget(self.quitButton)
        return buttonLayout

    def makeConnections(self):
        self.deleteButton.clicked.connect(self.deleteItem)
        self.quitButton.clicked.connect(self.close)
        self.undoButton.clicked.connect(self.undoStack.undo)
        self.redoButton.clicked.connect(self.undoStack.redo)

    def deleteItem(self):
        rowSelected=self.todoList.currentRow()
        rowItem = self.todoList.item(rowSelected)
        if rowItem is None:
            return
        command = CommandDelete(self.todoList, rowItem, rowSelected,
                                "Delete item '{0}'".format(rowItem.text()))
        self.undoStack.push(command)

    def makeTodoList(self):
        todoList = QtGui.QListWidget()
        allTasks = ('Fix door', 'Make dinner', 'Read', 
                    'Program in PySide', 'Be nice to everyone')
        for task in allTasks:
            todoItem=QtGui.QListWidgetItem(task)
            todoList.addItem(todoItem)
            todoItem.setFlags(QtCore.Qt.ItemIsSelectable | QtCore.Qt.ItemIsEnabled)
        return todoList


class CommandDelete(QtGui.QUndoCommand):
    def __init__(self, listWidget, item, row, description):
        super(CommandDelete, self).__init__(description)
        self.listWidget = listWidget
        self.string = item.text()
        self.row = row

    def redo(self):
        self.listWidget.takeItem(self.row)

    def undo(self):
        addItem = QtGui.QListWidgetItem(self.string)
        addItem.setFlags(QtCore.Qt.ItemIsSelectable | QtCore.Qt.ItemIsEnabled)
        self.listWidget.insertItem(self.row, addItem)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    myList=TodoList()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

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