Save the contents of a qtextedit to .txt file

Question

I have a question related to qtextedit. I have a GUI in which the Qtextedit widget gets populated once when i press a button (basically after running a process). Now i want to save the contents of the qtext edit widget to *.txt file.

I referred the docs but i did'nt get any particular method like gettext() of a qlineedit.

How to do this ? help me with this

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Which part of this are you having trouble with? Is it that you don't know how to get the text out of the widget, or how to save that into a file? — jonrsharpe, Sep 08 '14 at 10:08
i have problem with both i want the contents to be saved into a text file, my gui looks like the one in the picture which i attached. — ayaan, Sep 08 '14 at 10:12
Then this is probably two separate questions, both of which are trivially answered elsewhere: http://stackoverflow.com/q/2063633/3001761 and http://stackoverflow.com/q/5214578/3001761, for example. How the GUI looks isn't really relevant. — jonrsharpe, Sep 08 '14 at 10:16

Bandhit Suksiri · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-08T10:24:06.663

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Huummm ..., I document have it, isn't it ?

In QTextEdit have 2 method available for get text in frame;

QString QTextEdit.toHtml (self)

QString QTextEdit.toPlainText (self)

little example;

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yourQTextEdit = QtGui.QTextEdit() 
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with open('log.txt', 'w') as yourFile:
    yourFile.write(str(yourQTextEdit.toPlainText()))

edited Sep 08 '14 at 10:24

answered Sep 08 '14 at 10:12

Bandhit Suksiri

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i don't want it in html but i have to check toPlainText, i thought it as a different method because i was searching on the lines for getText – ayaan Sep 08 '14 at 10:16
`QString QTextEdit.toPlainText (self)` is also can used. Or use class `QtGui.QPlainTextEdit` to get pure plain text easy. – Bandhit Suksiri Sep 08 '14 at 10:18
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toPlainText works and sorry man.... actually i was looking for gettext that's y i could'nt find it – ayaan Sep 08 '14 at 10:20
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You should really handle files using the `with` context manager. – jonrsharpe Sep 08 '14 at 10:20
Thank for advice. I will improve it. @jonrsharpe – Bandhit Suksiri Sep 08 '14 at 10:24
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No problem - you don't need to explicitly `close` when you use `with` (that's one of the benefits) - the file is close when you leave the `with` block. – jonrsharpe Sep 08 '14 at 10:25

Save the contents of a qtextedit to .txt file

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