PyQt5 QDateEdit – Getting Button Symbols

Last Updated : 03 Jul, 2020

In this article we will see how we can get the button symbols of the QDateEdit. The date edit can two arrow buttons used for incrementing and decrementing the date, We can remove the buttons with the help of setButtonSymbols method and even after removing buttons there is no major effect on the functionality of the date edit.

In order to do this we use buttonSymbols method with the QDateEdit object

Syntax : date.buttonSymbols()

Argument : It takes no argument

Return : It returns button symbol object but when printed it shows the corresponding value of 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, 150, 40) 
  
        # removing button 
        date.setButtonSymbols(2) 
  
        # creating a label 
        label = QLabel("GeeksforGeeks", self) 
  
        # setting geometry 
        label.setGeometry(100, 150, 200, 60) 
  
        # making label multiline 
        label.setWordWrap(True) 
  
        # getting button symbol 
        value = date.buttonSymbols() 
  
        # setting text to the label 
        label.setText("Button Symbol : " + str(value)) 
  
# create pyqt5 app 
App = QApplication(sys.argv) 
  
# create the instance of our Window 
window = Window() 
  
# start the app 
sys.exit(App.exec()) 