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?

score 117 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 02 '18 at 22:03

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

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

edited Nov 02 '18 at 22:03

eyllanesc

answered Nov 26 '10 at 14:28

TZHX

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from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QFileDialog – boudewijn21 Oct 23 '18 at 12:38
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self is your parent QWidget – fivef Jul 25 '19 at 07:21
from PySide2.QtWidgets import QFileDialog – Metehan Gülaç Apr 17 '20 at 20:44
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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"))``` – Mujeeb Ishaque Aug 04 '20 at 05:53

score 21 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 13 '21 at 20:08

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Just as simple as that:

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

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

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

answered Feb 13 '21 at 20:08

Ali Sajjad

up voted!!! very well explained and compared with the ```QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, 'Hey! Select a File')``` – Ice Bear May 07 '21 at 07:30
what if I want either directory or file? – Wor Chan Aug 18 '22 at 15:28

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