In PyQt5, QListWidget is a convenience class that provides a list view with a classic item-based interface for adding and removing items. QListWidget uses an internal model to manage each QListWidgetItem in the list. Syntax:
listWidget = QListWidget()
There are two ways to add items to the list.
- They can be constructed with the list widget as their parent widget.
QListWidgetItem("Geeks", listWidget)
QListWidgetItem("For", listWidget)
QListWidgetItem("Geeks", listWidget)- They can be constructed with no parent widget and added to the list later.
listWidgetItem = QListWidgetItem("GeeksForGeeks")
listWidget.addItem(listWidgetItem)
Some of the most frequently used methods in QListWidget:
addItem() : To add QListWidgetItem object in list addItems() : To add multiple QListWidgetItem objects insertItem() : It adds item at specified position clear() : To delete all the items present in the list count() : To count number of items present in the list
Below is the code -
import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QListWidget, QVBoxLayout, QListWidgetItem
class Ui_MainWindow(QWidget):
def __init__(self, parent = None):
super(Ui_MainWindow, self).__init__(parent)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
window = QWidget()
listWidget = QListWidget()
window.setWindowTitle("Demo for QListWidget")
QListWidgetItem("Geeks", listWidget)
QListWidgetItem("For", listWidget)
QListWidgetItem("Geeks", listWidget)
listWidgetItem = QListWidgetItem("GeeksForGeeks")
listWidget.addItem(listWidgetItem)
window_layout = QVBoxLayout(window)
window_layout.addWidget(listWidget)
window.setLayout(window_layout)
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
Output : 