PyQt5 QDateTimeEdit – Setting Current Section Index

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In this article we will see how we can set current section through index of the QDateTimeEdit widget. There are many sections in the QDateTimeedit widget like, year, month, hour, minute section. User can select any section with the help of mouse or keyboard and increment and decrement action get performed on the current section. We can set current section programmatically with the help of setCurrentSection method.

In order to do this we will use setCurrentSectionIndex method with the QDateTimeEdit object.

Syntax : datetimeedit.setCurrentSectionIndex(n)

Argument : It takes integer as argument

Return : It returns None

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 QDateTimeEdit widget 
        datetimeedit = QDateTimeEdit(self) 
  
        # setting geometry 
        datetimeedit.setGeometry(100, 100, 150, 35) 
  
        # creating a push button 
        push = QPushButton("Press", self) 
  
        # setting geometry to the push button 
        push.setGeometry(120, 160, 120, 35) 
  
        # when push button get clicked connect to the method 
        push.clicked.connect(lambda: push_method()) 
  
        def push_method(): 
  
            # setting current section index 
            datetimeedit.setCurrentSectionIndex(3) 
  
  
  
  
# create pyqt5 app 
App = QApplication(sys.argv) 
  
# create the instance of our Window 
window = Window() 
  
# start the app 
sys.exit(App.exec()) 