QtGui.QCalendarWidget

A QtGui.QCalendarWidget provides a monthly based calendar widget. It allows a user to select a date in a simple and intuitive way.

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
ZetCode PyQt4 tutorial 

This example shows a QtGui.QCalendarWidget widget.

author: Jan Bodnar
website: zetcode.com
last edited: September 2011
"""

import sys
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore

class Example(QtGui.QWidget):

    def __init__(self):
        super(Example, self).__init__()

        self.initUI()

    def initUI(self):      

        cal = QtGui.QCalendarWidget(self)
        cal.setGridVisible(True)
        cal.move(20, 20)
        cal.clicked[QtCore.QDate].connect(self.showDate)

        self.lbl = QtGui.QLabel(self)
        date = cal.selectedDate()
        self.lbl.setText(date.toString())
        self.lbl.move(130, 260)

        self.setGeometry(300, 300, 350, 300)
        self.setWindowTitle('Calendar')
        self.show()

    def showDate(self, date):     

        self.lbl.setText(date.toString())

def main():

    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    ex = Example()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

The example has a calendar widget and a label widget. The currently selected date is displayed in the label widget.

cal = QtGui.QCalendarWidget(self)

We construct a calendar widget.

cal.clicked[QtCore.QDate].connect(self.showDate)

If we select a date from the widget, a clicked[QtCore.QDate] signal is emitted. We connect this signal to the user defined showDate() method.

def showDate(self, date):
    self.lbl.setText(date.toString())

We retrieve the selected date by calling the selectedDate() method. Then we transform the date object into string and set it to the label widget.

Figure: QtGui.QCalendarWidget