Here's the results, the table allows direct editing of the db.
note - you may need to install some dependencies
sudo apt-get install python-qt4 python-qt4-sql libqt4-sql-sqlite
#! /usr/bin/env python ''' ########################################################### ## A Demo Application showing the use of sqlite3 ## ## and the QSqlTableModel Class ## ## written by rowinggolfer 24th Feb 2010 ## ## version 0.1 and NOT YET WORKING!! ## ## this work is in the public domain, ## ## do with it as you please ## ########################################################### ''' import os, sys from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui, QtSql def makeDB(): import sqlite3 db = sqlite3.connect("test.db") db.execute("create table if not exists table1 (value text, data text)") query = "insert into table1 (value, data) values (?, ?)" valueSet = (("day","today"),("time","noon"),("food","cheese")) for values in valueSet: db.execute(query, values) db.commit() class TestApp(QtGui.QDialog): def __init__(self, model, parent = None): super(TestApp, self).__init__(parent) self.model = model table = QtGui.QTableView() table.setModel(self.model) button = QtGui.QPushButton("Add a row") layout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self) layout.addWidget(table) layout.addWidget(button) self.connect(button, QtCore.SIGNAL("clicked()"), self.addRow) def addRow(self): self.model.insertRows(self.model.rowCount(), 1) class myModel(QtSql.QSqlTableModel): def __init__(self, parent = None): super(myModel, self).__init__(parent) self.setEditStrategy(QtSql.QSqlTableModel.OnFieldChange) self.setTable("table1") self.select() if __name__ == "__main__": if not os.path.exists("test.db"): makeDB() myDb = QtSql.QSqlDatabase.addDatabase("QSQLITE") myDb.setDatabaseName("test.db") if not myDb.open(): print "Unable to create connection!" print "have you installed the sqlite driver?" print "sudo apt-get install libqt4-sql-sqlite" sys.exit(1) model = myModel() app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv) dl = TestApp(model) dl.exec_()