Insert table / table into PyGTK application?

GtkGrid

deprecated in favor of a more powerful and customizable one GtkTreeView

.

It can display trees and lists. To make it work like a table, you have to define ListStore

where it will get the data, and TreeViewColumn

for each column you want to show, from CellRenderer

before, define how to show the column. This separation of data and rendering allows you to display other controls in the cell, such as text boxes or images.

GtkTreeView

very flexible, but at first it seems complicated due to the many options. To help with this, see the relevant section in the PyGTK tutorial (although you should read it in its entirety, not just this section).

For completeness, here's a sample code and a screenshot of how it works on my system:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk

class TreeViewColumnExample(object):

    # close the window and quit
    def delete_event(self, widget, event, data=None):
        gtk.main_quit()
        return False

    def __init__(self):
        # Create a new window
        self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
        self.window.set_title("TreeViewColumn Example")
        self.window.connect("delete_event", self.delete_event)

        # create a liststore with one string column to use as the model
        self.liststore = gtk.ListStore(str, str, str, 'gboolean')

        # create the TreeView using liststore
        self.treeview = gtk.TreeView(self.liststore)

        # create the TreeViewColumns to display the data
        self.tvcolumn = gtk.TreeViewColumn('Pixbuf and Text')
        self.tvcolumn1 = gtk.TreeViewColumn('Text Only')

        # add a row with text and a stock item - color strings for
        # the background
        self.liststore.append(['Open', gtk.STOCK_OPEN, 'Open a File', True])
        self.liststore.append(['New', gtk.STOCK_NEW, 'New File', True])
        self.liststore.append(['Print', gtk.STOCK_PRINT, 'Print File', False])

        # add columns to treeview
        self.treeview.append_column(self.tvcolumn)
        self.treeview.append_column(self.tvcolumn1)

        # create a CellRenderers to render the data
        self.cellpb = gtk.CellRendererPixbuf()
        self.cell = gtk.CellRendererText()
        self.cell1 = gtk.CellRendererText()

        # set background color property
        self.cellpb.set_property('cell-background', 'yellow')
        self.cell.set_property('cell-background', 'cyan')
        self.cell1.set_property('cell-background', 'pink')


        # add the cells to the columns - 2 in the first
        self.tvcolumn.pack_start(self.cellpb, False)
        self.tvcolumn.pack_start(self.cell, True)
        self.tvcolumn1.pack_start(self.cell1, True)

        self.tvcolumn.set_attributes(self.cellpb, stock_id=1)
        self.tvcolumn.set_attributes(self.cell, text=0)
        self.tvcolumn1.set_attributes(self.cell1, text=2,
                                      cell_background_set=3)

        # make treeview searchable
        self.treeview.set_search_column(0)

        # Allow sorting on the column
        self.tvcolumn.set_sort_column_id(0)

        # Allow drag and drop reordering of rows
        self.treeview.set_reorderable(True)

        self.window.add(self.treeview)

        self.window.show_all()

def main():
    gtk.main()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    tvcexample = TreeViewColumnExample()
    main()