[PyQt] Help! How to set insert point in QTextEdit

[Edward K. Ream]

Setting the insertion point programmatically does not appear to "take"
until (approximately) the point at which a textChanged() signal is
generated.  The relevant code (simplified just a bit) is:

def setInsertPoint(self,i):
    w = self.widget
    g.trace(i,w)
    w.textCursor().setPosition(i)

def getInsertPoint(self):
    w = self.widget
    i = w.textCursor().position()
    g.trace(i,w)
    return i

As you can see, w does not report the new insertion point immediately:

getInsertPoint: 0  <PyQt4.QtGui.QTextEdit object at 0x017706A8>
setInsertPoint: 48 <PyQt4.QtGui.QTextEdit object at 0x017706A8>
getInsertPoint: 0  <PyQt4.QtGui.QTextEdit object at 0x017706A8> # Oops.

I have confirmed this by stepping with pdb, so I am fairly confident
that there are no intervening calls to QTextEdit methods.

Is there a way to force QTextEdit to report the present cursor
position?  I have tried w.update.

Anything else I should know?

Thanks.

Edward
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