Mastering GUI Programming with Python

QFileDialog

Applications commonly need to open or save files, and users need an easy way to browse and select those files. Qt provides us with the QFileDialog class to meet this need.

Just as with QMessageBox, the QFileDialog class contains several static methods that display an appropriate modal dialog box and return the value selected by the user.

This table shows the static methods and their intended use:

Method	Returns	Description
getExistingDirectory	String	Select an existing directory path.
getExistingDirectoryUrl	QUrl	Select an existing directory URL.
getOpenFileName	String	Select an existing filename path to open.
getOpenFileNames	List	Select multiple existing filename paths to open.
getOpenFileUrl	QUrl	Select an existing ...