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Reputation: 10573

Only display certain files in QFileDialog

Here's an example code I've written:

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (QApplication, QMainWindow, QFileDialog)
import sys


class Window(QMainWindow):

    def __init__(self):
        QMainWindow.__init__(self)
        dialog = QFileDialog()
        dialog.exec()

app = QApplication(sys.argv)
window = Window()
window.show()
app.exec_()

When I run it, I get the following: enter image description here

These are all the files in my directory. I would like to filter out files that don't have the word 'spam' in their title, so that when I run the file, the only files that are displayed are 'spam.txt', 'spam_eggs_and_spam.txt', and 'spam_eggs_tomato_and_spam.txt'.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2509

Answers (2)

Isma
Isma

Reputation: 15209

You could simply add a filter like this:

dialog = QFileDialog()
dialog.setNameFilter("Text Spam Files (*spam*.txt)")
dialog.exec()

But it can be overriden if the user types *.* in the filename field.

A better way to do this would be to implement your own QSortFilterProxyModel, here is my attempt:

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (QApplication, QMainWindow, QFileDialog)
from PyQt5.QtCore import QSortFilterProxyModel, QModelIndex
import sys


class FileFilterProxyModel(QSortFilterProxyModel):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(QSortFilterProxyModel, self).__init__(parent)

    def filterAcceptsRow(self, source_row: int, source_parent: QModelIndex) -> bool:
        source_model = self.sourceModel()
        index0 = source_model.index(source_row, 0, source_parent)
        if source_model.isDir(index0):
            return True
        return 'spam' in source_model.fileName(index0).lower()


class Window(QMainWindow):

    def __init__(self):
        QMainWindow.__init__(self)
        dialog = QFileDialog()
        dialog.setOption(QFileDialog.DontUseNativeDialog)
        dialog.setProxyModel(FileFilterProxyModel())
        dialog.setNameFilter("Text Files (*.txt)")
        dialog.exec()


app = QApplication(sys.argv)
window = Window()
window.show()
app.exec_()

Upvotes: 2

Ashleigh
Ashleigh

Reputation: 86

To only show files with the word 'spam' in them you can add:

dialog.setNameFilters(["*spam*"])

Upvotes: 1

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