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PyQt5 QDateEdit – Getting Direction

In this article we will see how we can get the direction of the date edit. By default when we create a date edit arrow buttons are at the right side although we can change it, by changing the layout direction with the help of setLayoutDirection method.

In order to do this we use layoutDirection method with the QDateEdit object

Syntax : date.layoutDirection()

Argument : It takes no argument

Return : It returns Direction object but when printed it shows the associated value with it

Below is the implementation




# importing libraries
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import * 
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui
from PyQt5.QtGui import * 
from PyQt5.QtCore import * 
import sys
  
  
class Window(QMainWindow):
  
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
  
        # setting title
        self.setWindowTitle("Python ")
  
        # setting geometry
        self.setGeometry(100, 100, 500, 400)
  
        # calling method
        self.UiComponents()
  
        # showing all the widgets
        self.show()
  
    # method for components
    def UiComponents(self):
  
        # creating a QDateEdit widget
        date = QDateEdit(self)
  
        # setting geometry of the date edit
        date.setGeometry(100, 100, 200, 40)
  
        # alignment
        a_flag = Qt.AlignCenter
  
        # setting alignment of date
        date.setAlignment(a_flag)
          
        # setting layout direction
        date.setLayoutDirection(Qt.RightToLeft)
  
  
        # creating a label
        label = QLabel("neveropen", self)
  
        # setting geometry
        label.setGeometry(100, 150, 250, 60)
  
        # making label multiline
        label.setWordWrap(True)
  
        # getting direction
        value = date.layoutDirection()
  
  
        # setting text to the label
        label.setText("Direction : " + str(value))
  
  
# create pyqt5 app
App = QApplication(sys.argv)
  
# create the instance of our Window
window = Window()
  
# start the app
sys.exit(App.exec())


Output :

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