Python PySide QDateEdit

Question

I have a QDateEdit object (field on a display window). When I use the only real option (according to the PySide site) QDateEdit.date() I get "2000, 1, 1" instead of "1/1/2000" and the documentation is completely useless for telling what to do with this data to use it as a real date. "2000, 1, 1" isn't a real date.

How to make this a date I can actually use and why I can't use any of the attributes described on the PySide site under QDate, QDateEdit, or QDateTimeEdit?

Answer 1

I am having a hard time trying to determine what you mean by "real date", but here is my idea of what you could want:

# QDateEdit's .date() returns a QtCore.QDate object
date = QtCore.QDate(2013, 1, 1)

# Get the string in whatever format you want
date.toString("MM/dd/yyyy")
Out[10]: u'01/01/2013'

# Get the date as a datetime object
date.toPython()
Out[11]: datetime.date(2013, 1, 1)

I got all of this from the PySide wiki