A TextEdit editor that sends editingFinished events when the text was changed and focus is lost.

TextEdit.py

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui

class TextEdit(QtGui.QTextEdit):
    """
    A TextEdit editor that sends editingFinished events 
    when the text was changed and focus is lost.
    """

    editingFinished = QtCore.pyqtSignal()
    receivedFocus = QtCore.pyqtSignal()
    
    def __init__(self, parent):
        super(TextEdit, self).__init__(parent)
        self._changed = False
        self.setTabChangesFocus( True )
        self.textChanged.connect( self._handle_text_changed )

    def focusInEvent(self, event):
        super(TextEdit, self).focusInEvent( event )
        self.receivedFocus.emit()

    def focusOutEvent(self, event):
        if self._changed:
            self.editingFinished.emit()
        super(TextEdit, self).focusOutEvent( event )

    def _handle_text_changed(self):
        self._changed = True

    def setTextChanged(self, state=True):
        self._changed = state

    def setHtml(self, html):
        QtGui.QTextEdit.setHtml(self, html)
        self._changed = False