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houhou
houhou

Reputation: 177

how to get yesterday from whenever the QdateEdit pyqt

I am using a PyQt5 GUI application and I need to get the value of yesterdays from any date in the QdateEdite I have inside the GUI application, for example I want to choose the day I use this code

date_n = str(self.dateEdit_2.text())

How can I get the ysterday of the day_n whenever the date_n it will be?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 442

Answers (1)

eyllanesc
eyllanesc

Reputation: 243993

You have to get the QDate from QDateEdit, then subtract one day from it and then convert it to a string:

selected_dt = self.dateEdit_2.date()
last_dt = selected_dt.addDays(-1)
last_dt_str = last_dt.toString(self.dateEdit_2.displayFormat())
print(last_dt_str)

Upvotes: 2

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