PyQt5 QDateEdit – Getting Direction

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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("zambiatek", 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()) 