[Python-modules-team] Bug#764761: closed by Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at gmail.com> (Re: pyqt4-dev-tools: fontMetrics.elidedText performs poorly on '\t' in QLabel.)

[Enno]

Dear Dmitry,

Of course I know about the difference between tabs and spaces.

Segfault?  Well maybe I should add the full code:
### CODE START
from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication, QLabel
a = QApplication([])
b = QLabel()
b.setGeometry(0, 0, 100, 24)
text = 'blah\tmooh\twoof'
fm = b.fontMetrics()
b.setText(fm.elidedText(text, 1, b.width()))
b.show()
### CODE END

The width of the tab is 80px according to Qt documentation, but this is
not consistent with my experience, in my configuration in this QLabel it
seems to be about 56px wide.

Anyway I think it's an upstream problem, right from Qt, like so many :(.

Brgds, enno.

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