PyQt5 – rect() method

rect() method belongs to QtCore.QRect class, this method is used to get the geometry of the window or any widget. It returns the object of type QRect which tells the property of the rectangle.

Syntax : widget.rect()

Argument : It takes no argument.

Return : It returns the rectangle of the widget

Code :

# importing the required libraries

from PyQt5.QtCore import *
from PyQt5.QtGui import *
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
import sys


class Window(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()


        # set the title
        self.setWindowTitle("Python")

        # setting geometry
        self.setGeometry(100, 100, 600, 400)

        # creating a label widget
        self.label_1 = QLabel("new border ", self)

        # moving position
        self.label_1.move(100, 100)

        # printing window geometry
        print(self.rect())

        # printing label geometry
        print(self.label_1.rect())

        # setting up the border
        self.label_1.setStyleSheet("border :3px solid black;")

        # show all the widgets
        self.update()
        self.show()


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

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

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

Output :

PyQt5.QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 600, 400)
PyQt5.QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 100, 30)