PyQt5 QDateTimeEdit – Setting Special Date Time Text

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In this article we will see how we can set special date-time text to the QDateTimeEdit widget. By setting special text, the QDateTimeEdit display this special text instead of a date-time value whenever the current value is equal to minimum date time.

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

Syntax : datetimeedit.setSpecialValueText(text)

Argument : It takes string 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) 
  
        # minimum date time 
        min_dt = QDateTime(2020, 10, 10, 11, 30) 
  
        # setting minimum date time 
        datetimeedit.setMinimumDateTime(min_dt) 
  
        # text 
        text = "GfG Date Time"
  
        # setting special text to the date time edit 
        datetimeedit.setSpecialValueText(text) 
  
        # creating a label 
        label = QLabel("zambiatek", self) 
  
        # setting geometry to the label 
        label.setGeometry(100, 160, 200, 60) 
  
        # making label multi line 
        label.setWordWrap(True) 
  
        
  
  
# create pyqt5 app 
App = QApplication(sys.argv) 
  
# create the instance of our Window 
window = Window() 
  
# start the app 
sys.exit(App.exec()) 