Point getOpenFileName to parent of current working directory

[Ed Schneider]

In getOpenFileName how do I get it to open the parent of the current working directory?

[jsulm]

@Ed-Schneider Well, you pass that folder as const QString &dir = QString() parameter.
Use

QDir::current() + "/.."

[Ed Schneider]

@jsulm said in Point getOpenFileName to parent of current working directory:

"/.."

Can you create an example of calling GetOpenFile Name pointing to the parent directory? I tried several variations and could not get it to work. I'm working in Python with PySide6 and Windows. Thanks

[JonB]

@Ed-Schneider
He did. Use QDir.current() + "/.." or even just "..", and pass that as the directory.

[mpergand]

@Ed-Schneider
try:

QDir dir;
dir.cdUp();
qDebug()<<dir.path();

[JonB]

@mpergand
That has the side-effect of permanently changing the application's current directory, just to open a file.
(Or does it only change the directory of that QDir instance? In any case, in the politest way, I don't see this would help, I don't think QFileDialog::getOpenFileName takes a QDir.)
Just passing the .. is all that is needed here.

[Ed Schneider]

I got a working solution from ChatGPT -

current_directory = os.getcwd()
parent_directory = os.path.dirname(current_working_directory)

and then use keyword dir=parent_directory in the call on getOpenFileName

[JonB]

@Ed-Schneider Did you try just dir=".."?

[Ed Schneider]

@JonB That does indeed work as well. Thanks

[friedemannkleint]

These days, pathlib is recommended:

from pathlib import Path
dir = Path.cwd().parent

getOpenFileName(... , os.fspath(dir), ....

[Ed Schneider]

@friedemannkleint That does work as well. Glad you added this. This is what I will be using. Surprised this wasn't offered sooner. Danke.