PyQt5 QDateEdit – Getting read only property

In this article we will see how we get the read-only property of date edit. By default when we create a date edit it is editable although we can make it read-only. In read-only mode, the user can still copy the text to the clipboard, or drag and drop the text but cannot edit it. In order to make the date edit read-only we use setReadOnly method.

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

Syntax : date.isReadOnly()

Argument : It takes no argument

Return : It returns bool

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)

        # making date edit read only
        date.setReadOnly(True)


        # creating a label
        label = QLabel("GeeksforGeeks", self)

        # setting geometry
        label.setGeometry(100, 150, 250, 60)

        # making label multiline
        label.setWordWrap(True)

        # getting read-only property
        value = date.isReadOnly()


        # setting text to the label
        label.setText("Read Only ? " + str(value))


# create pyqt5 app
App = QApplication(sys.argv)

# create the instance of our Window
window = Window()

# start the app
sys.exit(App.exec())

Output :