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QDate into QString


I have a question about PyQt4. I have a date that is of a type QDate and I want to simply turn it into a string format as opposed to QDate format. For example, if the date is 09/16/2013, I would want to change it into a string form of September 16, 2013 if possible.

I played around with toString but I think that only works with C++ (unless I am mistaken).


Solution

  • Documentation is your friend ;)

    >>> date = QtCore.QDate.fromString('20130916', 'yyyyMd')
    
    # PySide
    >>> date.toString('MMMM d, yyyy')
    u'September 16, 2013'
    
    # PyQt4
    >>> date.toString('MMMM d, yyyy')
    PyQt4.QtCore.QString(u'September 16, 2013')
    >>> unicode(date.toString('MMMM d, yyyy'))
    u'September 16, 2013'