how to have a directory dialog

Question

In PyQt, how does one display a file browser that shows and selects only directories (not files)?

And how does one retrieve the name of the selected directory?

Exculpate

Answer 1

From inside your QDialog/QWidget class, you should be able to do:

file = str(QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory(self, "Select Directory"))

Dual

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QFileDialog – Melindamelinde

self is your parent QWidget – Holdall

from PySide2.QtWidgets import QFileDialog – Unconscious

If the above isn't working for you. It's the issue with your widget. pass None instead of self and it will work, like this: folder = str(QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory(None, "Select Directory")) – Exchange

Answer 2

Just as simple as that:

folderpath = QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory(self, 'Select Folder')

Here, self represents the parent window usually the QMainWindow object.

Similarly for File dialog:

filepath = QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, 'Hey! Select a File')

Beaverbrook

up voted!!! very well explained and compared with the QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, 'Hey! Select a File') – Mylo

what if I want either directory or file? – Mme

Answer 3

In PyQt6 QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory is the same as PyQt5, but things change for QFileDialog.getOpenFileName which returns a tuple instead:

from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QFileDialog
file_path, filter_ = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, 'Pick a file')

Monzonite