How to change text alignment in QTabWidget?

Question

I cannot find a way to set the text alignment in a QTabWidget.

After I\'ve created an instance of this widget, I\'ve set its tabPosition property to West,

Answer 1

To get you started, you need to create a custom class that is a subclass of QtGui/QTabWidget and redefine the painting method:

class HorizontalTabWidget(QtGui.QTabWidget):
   def paintEvent(self, event):
      QPainter p;
      p.begin(this);
      # your drawing code goes here
      p.end();

Here's the documentation for QWidget.paintEvent method that you are reimplementing.

Of course you need to know how painting works in general, please refer to the documentation for QPainter.

Unfortunately I don't have a PyQt installation handy at the moment, so I can't give you a more specific solution.