QDateTimeEdit¶

The QDateTimeEdit class provides a widget for editing dates and times. More…

Inherited by: QTimeEdit, QDateEdit

Synopsis¶

Functions¶

def calendar ()
def calendarPopup ()
def calendarWidget ()
def clearMaximumDate ()
def clearMaximumDateTime ()
def clearMaximumTime ()
def clearMinimumDate ()
def clearMinimumDateTime ()
def clearMinimumTime ()
def currentSection ()
def currentSectionIndex ()
def date ()
def dateChanged (date)
def dateTime ()
def dateTimeChanged (dateTime)
def displayFormat ()
def displayedSections ()
def maximumDate ()
def maximumDateTime ()
def maximumTime ()
def minimumDate ()
def minimumDateTime ()
def minimumTime ()
def sectionAt (index)
def sectionCount ()
def sectionText (section)
def setCalendar (calendar)
def setCalendarPopup (enable)
def setCalendarWidget (calendarWidget)
def setCurrentSection (section)
def setCurrentSectionIndex (index)
def setDate (date)
def setDateRange (min, max)
def setDateTime (dateTime)
def setDateTimeRange (min, max)
def setDisplayFormat (format)
def setMaximumDate (max)
def setMaximumDateTime (dt)
def setMaximumTime (max)
def setMinimumDate (min)
def setMinimumDateTime (dt)
def setMinimumTime (min)
def setSelectedSection (section)
def setTime (time)
def setTimeRange (min, max)
def setTimeSpec (spec)
def time ()
def timeChanged (time)
def timeSpec ()

Virtual functions¶

def dateTimeFromText (text)
def textFromDateTime (dt)

Detailed Description¶

QDateTimeEdit allows the user to edit dates by using the keyboard or the arrow keys to increase and decrease date and time values. The arrow keys can be used to move from section to section within the QDateTimeEdit box. Dates and times appear in accordance with the format set; see setDisplayFormat() .

dateEdit = QDateTimeEdit(QDate.currentDate())
dateEdit.setMinimumDate(QDate.currentDate().addDays(-365))
dateEdit.setMaximumDate(QDate.currentDate().addDays(365))
dateEdit.setDisplayFormat("yyyy.MM.dd")

Here we’ve created a new QDateTimeEdit object initialized with today’s date, and restricted the valid date range to today plus or minus 365 days. We’ve set the order to month, day, year.

The range of valid values for a QDateTimeEdit is controlled by the properties minimumDateTime , maximumDateTime , and their respective date and time components. By default, any date-time from the start of 100 CE to the end of 9999 CE is valid.

Keyboard Tracking¶

When keyboard tracking is enabled (the default), every keystroke of editing a field triggers signals for value changes.

When the allowed range is narrower than some time interval whose end it straddles, keyboard tracking prevents the user editing the date or time to access the later part of the interval. For example, for a range from 29.04.2020 to 02.05.2020 and an initial date of 30.04.2020, the user can change neither the month (May 30th is outside the range) nor the day (April 2nd is outside the range).

When keyboard tracking is disabled, changes are only signalled when focus leaves the text field after edits have modified the content. This allows the user to edit via an invalid date-time to reach a valid one.

See also

QDateEdit QTimeEdit QDate QTime

class PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit(d[, parent=None])¶

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit(t[, parent=None])

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit([parent=None])

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit(dt[, parent=None])

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit(val, parserType[, parent=None])

Parameters

dt – PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime
val – object
parserType – Type
d – PySide6.QtCore.QDate
t – PySide6.QtCore.QTime
parent – PySide6.QtWidgets.QWidget

Constructs an empty date time editor with a parent.

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.Section¶

Constant	Description
QDateTimeEdit.NoSection
QDateTimeEdit.AmPmSection
QDateTimeEdit.MSecSection
QDateTimeEdit.SecondSection
QDateTimeEdit.MinuteSection
QDateTimeEdit.HourSection
QDateTimeEdit.DaySection
QDateTimeEdit.MonthSection
QDateTimeEdit.YearSection

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.calendar()¶

Return type: PySide6.QtCore.QCalendar

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.calendarPopup()¶

Return type: bool

See also

setCalendarPopup()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.calendarWidget()¶

Return type: PySide6.QtWidgets.QCalendarWidget

Returns the calendar widget for the editor if calendarPopup is set to true and (sections() & DateSections_Mask ) != 0.

This function creates and returns a calendar widget if none has been set.

See also

setCalendarWidget()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.clearMaximumDate()¶

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.clearMaximumDateTime()¶

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.clearMaximumTime()¶

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.clearMinimumDate()¶

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.clearMinimumDateTime()¶

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.clearMinimumTime()¶

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.currentSection()¶

Return type: Section

See also

setCurrentSection()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.currentSectionIndex()¶

Return type: int

See also

setCurrentSectionIndex()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.date()¶

Return type: PySide6.QtCore.QDate

Returns the date of the date time edit.

See also

setDate()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.dateChanged(date)¶

Parameters: date – PySide6.QtCore.QDate

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.dateTime()¶

Return type: PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime

See also

setDateTime()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.dateTimeChanged(dateTime)¶

Parameters: dateTime – PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.dateTimeFromText(text)¶

Parameters: text – str
Return type: PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime

Returns an appropriate datetime for the given text.

This virtual function is used by the datetime edit whenever it needs to interpret text entered by the user as a value.

See also

textFromDateTime() validate()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.displayFormat()¶

Return type: str

See also

setDisplayFormat()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.displayedSections()¶

Return type: Sections

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.maximumDate()¶

Return type: PySide6.QtCore.QDate

See also

setMaximumDate()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.maximumDateTime()¶

Return type: PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime

See also

setMaximumDateTime()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.maximumTime()¶

Return type: PySide6.QtCore.QTime

See also

setMaximumTime()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.minimumDate()¶

Return type: PySide6.QtCore.QDate

See also

setMinimumDate()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.minimumDateTime()¶

Return type: PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime

See also

setMinimumDateTime()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.minimumTime()¶

Return type: PySide6.QtCore.QTime

See also

setMinimumTime()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.sectionAt(index)¶

Parameters: index – int
Return type: Section

Returns the Section at index.

If the format is ‘yyyy/MM/dd’, (0) returns YearSection , (1) returns MonthSection , and (2) returns YearSection ,

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.sectionCount()¶

Return type: int

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.sectionText(section)¶

Parameters: section – Section
Return type: str

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setCalendar(calendar)¶

Parameters: calendar – PySide6.QtCore.QCalendar

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setCalendarPopup(enable)¶

Parameters: enable – bool

See also

calendarPopup()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setCalendarWidget(calendarWidget)¶

Parameters: calendarWidget – PySide6.QtWidgets.QCalendarWidget

Sets the given calendarWidget as the widget to be used for the calendar pop-up. The editor does not automatically take ownership of the calendar widget.

Note

calendarPopup must be set to true before setting the calendar widget.

See also

calendarWidget() calendarPopup

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setCurrentSection(section)¶

Parameters: section – Section

See also

currentSection()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setCurrentSectionIndex(index)¶

Parameters: index – int

See also

currentSectionIndex()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setDate(date)¶

Parameters: date – PySide6.QtCore.QDate

See also

date()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setDateRange(min, max)¶

Parameters

min – PySide6.QtCore.QDate
max – PySide6.QtCore.QDate

Set the range of allowed dates for the date time edit.

This convenience function sets the minimumDate and maximumDate properties.

setDateRange(min, max)

is analogous to:

setMinimumDate(min)
setMaximumDate(max)

If either min or max is invalid, this function does nothing. This function preserves the minimumTime property. If max is less than min, the new maximumDateTime property shall be the new minimumDateTime property. If max is equal to min and the maximumTime property was less then the minimumTime property, the maximumTime property is set to the minimumTime property. Otherwise, this preserves the maximumTime property.

If the range is narrower then a time interval whose end it spans, for example a week that spans the end of a month, users can only edit the date to one in the later part of the range if keyboard-tracking is disabled.

See also

minimumDate maximumDate setDateTimeRange() isValid() Keyboard Tracking

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setDateTime(dateTime)¶

Parameters: dateTime – PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime

See also

dateTime()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setDateTimeRange(min, max)¶

Parameters

min – PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime
max – PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime

Set the range of allowed date-times for the date time edit.

This convenience function sets the minimumDateTime and maximumDateTime properties.

setDateTimeRange(min, max)

is analogous to:

setMinimumDateTime(min)
setMaximumDateTime(max)

If either min or max is invalid, this function does nothing. If max is less than min, min is used also as max.

If the range is narrower then a time interval whose end it spans, for example a week that spans the end of a month, users can only edit the date-time to one in the later part of the range if keyboard-tracking is disabled.

See also

minimumDateTime maximumDateTime setDateRange() setTimeRange() isValid() Keyboard Tracking

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setDisplayFormat(format)¶

Parameters: format – str

See also

displayFormat()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setMaximumDate(max)¶

Parameters: max – PySide6.QtCore.QDate

See also

maximumDate()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setMaximumDateTime(dt)¶

Parameters: dt – PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime

See also

maximumDateTime()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setMaximumTime(max)¶

Parameters: max – PySide6.QtCore.QTime

See also

maximumTime()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setMinimumDate(min)¶

Parameters: min – PySide6.QtCore.QDate

See also

minimumDate()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setMinimumDateTime(dt)¶

Parameters: dt – PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime

See also

minimumDateTime()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setMinimumTime(min)¶

Parameters: min – PySide6.QtCore.QTime

See also

minimumTime()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setSelectedSection(section)¶

Parameters: section – Section

Selects section. If section doesn’t exist in the currently displayed sections, this function does nothing. If section is NoSection , this function will unselect all text in the editor. Otherwise, this function will move the cursor and the current section to the selected section.

See also

currentSection()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setTime(time)¶

Parameters: time – PySide6.QtCore.QTime

See also

time()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setTimeRange(min, max)¶

Parameters

min – PySide6.QtCore.QTime
max – PySide6.QtCore.QTime

Set the range of allowed times for the date time edit.

This convenience function sets the minimumTime and maximumTime properties.

Note that these only constrain the date time edit’s value on, respectively, the minimumDate and maximumDate . When these date properties do not coincide, times after max are allowed on dates before maximumDate and times before min are allowed on dates after minimumDate .

setTimeRange(min, max)

is analogous to:

setMinimumTime(min)
setMaximumTime(max)

If either min or max is invalid, this function does nothing. This function preserves the minimumDate and maximumDate properties. If those properties coincide and max is less than min, min is used as max.

If the range is narrower then a time interval whose end it spans, for example the interval from ten to an hour to ten past the same hour, users can only edit the time to one in the later part of the range if keyboard-tracking is disabled.

See also

minimumTime maximumTime setDateTimeRange() isValid() Keyboard Tracking

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.setTimeSpec(spec)¶

Parameters: spec – TimeSpec

See also

timeSpec()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.textFromDateTime(dt)¶

Parameters: dt – PySide6.QtCore.QDateTime
Return type: str

This virtual function is used by the date time edit whenever it needs to display dateTime.

If you reimplement this, you may also need to reimplement validate() .

See also

dateTimeFromText() validate()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.time()¶

Return type: PySide6.QtCore.QTime

Returns the time of the date time edit.

See also

setTime()

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.timeChanged(time)¶

Parameters: time – PySide6.QtCore.QTime

PySide6.QtWidgets.QDateTimeEdit.timeSpec()¶

Return type: TimeSpec

See also

setTimeSpec()

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QDateTimeEdit¶

Synopsis¶

Functions¶

Virtual functions¶

Detailed Description¶

Using a Pop-up Calendar Widget¶

Keyboard Tracking¶