How to update dateEdit from database

[LT-K101]

Hi,
I want to update dateEdit with a date from database but I have this error message. arguments did not match any overloaded call:
setDate(self, int, int, int): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'. Below is the code I tried.

dob = self.ui.dateEdit_4.date().setDate(data[10])

where data is my sql query. Please any help on what I'm doing wrong?

[JonB]

@LT-K101 said in How to update dateEdit from database:

self.ui.dateEdit_4.date().setDate(data[10])

QDateEdit.date() returns the date in a QDateEdit. You do not use it to set a date! setDate() does that.

self.ui.dateEdit_4.setDate(data[10])

But setDate() does not just accept a string, if that is what is coming back from your database (per the error message). (Why is your column for a date returning a string and not a date/datetime? It should be a datetime type column in the database and be returned as a date type in Qt/Python. I don't know what driver/query you are using.)

You can probably use something like self.ui.dateEdit_4.dateTimeFromText(data[10]) to convert your string to a date to be passed to setDate(). But that depends on the format of the string in data[10] from the database, you may have to use some other method of QDateTime to parse your input string. Or Python has functions for converting strings to dates.

[LT-K101]

@JonB The column data type I'm using is TEXT because these are the available data types INTEGER,TEXT,BLOB,REAL and NUMERIC.

[JonB]

@LT-K101
Then the database features are pretty limited. Maybe it allows some sort of SELECT DATE(column) to return a converted date, I don't know. Anyway so you need to turn it into a date if you want to use QDateEdit.setDate(date).