PyQt - QFileDialog Widget

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This widget is a file selector dialog. It enables the user to navigate through the file system and select a file to open or save. The dialog is invoked either through static functions or by calling exec_() function on the dialog object.

Static functions of QFileDialog class (getOpenFileName() and getSaveFileName()) call the native file dialog of the current operating system.

A file filter can also applied to display only files of the specified extensions. The starting directory and default file name can also be set.

Important methods and enumerations of QFileDialog class are listed in the following table −

Example

Both methods of invoking the file dialog are demonstrated in the following example.

The first button invokes the file dialog by the static method.

fname = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, 'Open file', 
   'c:\\',"Image files (*.jpg *.gif)")

The selected image file is displayed on a label widget. The second button invokes the file dialog by calling exec_() method on QFileDialog object.

dlg = QFileDialog()
dlg.setFileMode(QFileDialog.AnyFile)
dlg.setFilter("Text files (*.txt)")
filenames = QStringList()

   if dlg.exec_():
      filenames = dlg.selectedFiles()

The contents of the selected file are displayed in the TextEdit widget.

f = open(filenames[0], 'r')
   with f:
      data = f.read()
      self.contents.setText(data)

The complete code is as follows −

import sys
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *

class filedialogdemo(QWidget):
   def __init__(self, parent = None):
      super(filedialogdemo, self).__init__(parent)
		
      layout = QVBoxLayout()
      self.btn = QPushButton("QFileDialog static method demo")
      self.btn.clicked.connect(self.getfile)
		
      layout.addWidget(self.btn)
      self.le = QLabel("Hello")
		
      layout.addWidget(self.le)
      self.btn1 = QPushButton("QFileDialog object")
      self.btn1.clicked.connect(self.getfiles)
      layout.addWidget(self.btn1)
		
      self.contents = QTextEdit()
      layout.addWidget(self.contents)
      self.setLayout(layout)
      self.setWindowTitle("File Dialog demo")
		
   def getfile(self):
      fname = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, 'Open file', 
         'c:\\',"Image files (*.jpg *.gif)")
      self.le.setPixmap(QPixmap(fname))
		
   def getfiles(self):
      dlg = QFileDialog()
      dlg.setFileMode(QFileDialog.AnyFile)
      dlg.setFilter("Text files (*.txt)")
      filenames = QStringList()
		
      if dlg.exec_():
         filenames = dlg.selectedFiles()
         f = open(filenames[0], 'r')
			
         with f:
            data = f.read()
            self.contents.setText(data)
				
def main():
   app = QApplication(sys.argv)
   ex = filedialogdemo()
   ex.show()
   sys.exit(app.exec_())
	
if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

The above code produces the following output −