QListWidget and Multiple Selection

Question

I have a regular QListWidget with couple of signals and slots hookedup. Everything works as I expect. I can update, retrieve, clear etc.

But the UI wont support multiple selections.

How do I 'enable' multiple selections for QListWidget? My limited experience with PyQt tells me I need to create a custom QListWidget by subclassing .. but what next?

Google gave me C++ answers but I'm looking for Python

http://www.qtforum.org/article/26320/qlistwidget-multiple-selection.html

http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/11721-QListWidget-multi-selection

score 34 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 24 '10 at 18:28

Unfortunately I can't help with the Python specific syntax but you don't need to create any subclasses.

After your QListWidget is created, call setSelectionMode() with one of the multiple selection types passed in, probably QAbstractItemView::ExtendedSelection is the one you want. There are a few variations on this mode that you may want to look at.

In your slot for the itemSelectionChanged() signal, call selectedItems() to get a QList of QListWidgetItem pointers.

`extendedSelection`. That's what I was looking for. Thanks a lot. — Jeffrey Jose, Oct 30 '10 at 15:25

score 30 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 03 '14 at 18:19

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For PyQT4 it's

QListWidget.setSelectionMode(QtGui.QAbstractItemView.ExtendedSelection)

answered Jun 03 '14 at 18:19

Jeff M.

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For PySide it´s exactly the same. – Darkgaze Oct 14 '15 at 08:32
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This should be the selected answer, as the OP specified "*Google gave me C++ answers but I'm looking for Python*". For Qt5, `QAbstractItemView` is imported from `QtWidgets`. – mins Jun 05 '21 at 09:16

score 14 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Example of getting multiple selected values in listWidget with multiple selection.

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets, QtCore
class Test(QtWidgets.QDialog):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(Test, self).__init__(parent)
        self.layout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
        self.listWidget = QtWidgets.QListWidget()
        self.listWidget.setSelectionMode(
            QtWidgets.QAbstractItemView.ExtendedSelection
        )
        self.listWidget.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(10, 10, 211, 291))
        for i in range(10):
            item = QtWidgets.QListWidgetItem("Item %i" % i)
            self.listWidget.addItem(item)
        self.listWidget.itemClicked.connect(self.printItemText)
        self.layout.addWidget(self.listWidget)
        self.setLayout(self.layout)

    def printItemText(self):
        items = self.listWidget.selectedItems()
        x = []
        for i in range(len(items)):
            x.append(str(self.listWidget.selectedItems()[i].text()))

        print (x)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    form = Test()
    form.show()
    app.exec_()

output :-

I checked many solutions and didn't work. but this works fine on [Py]QT 5.11.3 — ali reza, Feb 01 '19 at 06:43

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 18 '20 at 14:42

Using PyQt5 you can set the SelectionMode of your QListWidget to allow multiple selections by using:

from PyQt5 import QtWidgets    


QtWidgets.QListWidget.setSelectionMode(2)

where

SelectionMode = 0 => NoSelection
SelectionMode = 1 => SingleSelection
SelectionMode = 2 => MultiSelection
SelectionMode = 3 => ExtendedSelection
SelectionMode = 4 => ContiguousSelection

Reference

In Qt Creator you find this option here:

elyte5star · Answer 5 · 2020-06-20T22:58:18.687

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In addition, you can use list comprehension to get the selected items, for example

num_ITEMS=[item.text() for item in self.listWidget.selectedItems()]

edited Jun 20 '20 at 22:58

answered Jun 04 '20 at 21:31

elyte5star

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 01 '22 at 18:41

After searching for much time I found out they they changed this in PyQt6. Now you have to do the following:

from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QListWidget, QAbstractItemView
# ... all your other imports
class MyWidget(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
    super(MyWidget, self).__init__()
    self.layout = QHBoxLayout()
    self.my_list_view = QListWidget()
    self.my_list_view.setSelectionMode(QAbstractItemView.SelectionMode.MultiSelection) # also try QAbstractItemView.SelectionMode.ExtendedSelection if you want the user to press CTRL for multiple selection

Basically you have to import the QAbstractItemView from the widgets and use the right selection mode

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