PyQt5 QDateTimeEdit – Getting Display format

In this article we will see how we can get display format of the QDateTimeEdit. Display format property holds the format used to display the time/date of the date-time edit. By default we see date in format like 01-01-2000 although by setting display format we can make this date as 1 Jan 2020, it can be set with the help of setDisplayFormat method.

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

Syntax : datetimeedit.displayFormat()

Argument : It takes no argument

Return : It returns string

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)

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

        # setting geometry to the label
        label.setGeometry(100, 200, 300, 80)

        # making label multi line
        label.setWordWrap(True)

        # getting display format
        value = datetimeedit.displayFormat()

        # setting text to the label
        label.setText("Display Format : " + value)


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

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

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

Output :