how to have a directory dialog

From inside your QDialog/QWidget class, you should be able to do:

file = str(QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory(self, "Select Directory"))

python pyqt pyqt4 file-browser

Just as simple as that:

folderpath = QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory(self, 'Select Folder')

Here, self represents the parent window usually the QMainWindow object.

filepath = QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, 'Hey! Select a File')

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