absolutely center text alignment in qtablewidgetitem that has an icon

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I have a QTableWidget which contains cells which may or may not contain QIcons in them. When I align the texts of cells with icons in them, they are centered more right than cells without icons in them.

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How do I make the text in cells with icons center so that they align with the entire cell, and not the text portion of the QTableWidgetItem?

I tried:

QTableWidgetItem::setTextAlignment(Qt::AlignAbsolute | Qt:: AlignCenter)

QTableWidgetItem::setTextAlignment(Qt::AlignAbsolute | Qt:: AlignCenter)

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I have read into similar threads describing the use of QItemDelegates when considering icon alignment, but does this method work for QTableWidgetItems via medelling with the Qt:isplayRole portion of QItemDelegate or am I completely off?