PyQt5 QCalendarWidget – Setting Description Property

PyQt5 is a Python library used for creating desktop applications. One of its widgets is QCalendarWidget, which provides a calendar that can be used to select dates. The QCalendarWidget widget can display descriptions for those dates that have them. In this article, we will learn how to set the description property of QCalendarWidget.

Setting Description Property of QCalendarWidget

Description property of QCalendarWidget is a dictionary that can be used to set the descriptions for dates. The key of this dictionary must be a QDate object and its value is a tooltip string. Here’s how to set the description property of QCalendarWidget:

from PyQt5.QtCore import QDate
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QCalendarWidget, QApplication

app = QApplication([])
calendar = QCalendarWidget()

# Setting the description property
calendar.setDateTextFormat(QDate(2021, 11, 11), {"tooltip": "Remembrance Day"})

# Showing the calendar
calendar.show()
app.exec_()

In the above example, we set the description of November 11, 2021 to “Remembrance Day”. This will display a tooltip when you hover over this date.

Conclusion

In this article, we learned how to set the description property of QCalendarWidget using PyQt5. This property provides a convenient way to display descriptions for specific dates in a calendar.