PyQt5 QCalendarWidget -Grabbing Keyboard input

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In this article we will see how we can grab the keyboard input for the QCalendarWidget. By grabbing keyboard the calendar will not be affected, except that it doesn’t receive any keyboard events. setFocus moves the focus as usual, but the new focus widget receives keyboard events only after releaseKeyboard is called.

In order to do this we will use grabKeyboard method with the QCalendarWidget object.

Syntax : calendar.grabKeyboard()

Argument : It takes no argument

Return : It return None

Below is the implementation

Python3

# 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, 650, 400) 
  
        # calling method 
        self.UiComponents() 
  
        # showing all the widgets 
        self.show() 
  
    # method for components 
    def UiComponents(self): 
  
        # creating a QCalendarWidget object 
        self.calendar = QCalendarWidget(self) 
  
        # setting geometry to the calendar 
        self.calendar.setGeometry(50, 10, 400, 250) 
  
        # setting cursor 
        self.calendar.setCursor(Qt.PointingHandCursor) 
  
        # grabbing keyboard input 
        self.calendar.grabKeyboard() 
  
  
  
# create pyqt5 app 
App = QApplication(sys.argv) 
  
# create the instance of our Window 
window = Window() 
  
# start the app 
sys.exit(App.exec()) 