Get Plain text from a QLabel with Rich text

python qt pyqt pyqt4 qlabel

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Solution 1

Use a QTextDocument to do the conversion:

doc = QtGui.QTextDocument()
doc.setHtml(label.text())
text = doc.toPlainText()

Solution 2

Here's a messy work around (for python - PyQt)

def Extract_PlainText(label):
    Rtf_text = label.text()
    Temp_Obj = QtGui.QTextEdit()
    Temp_Obj.setText(Rtf_text)
    Plain_text = Temp_Obj.toPlainText()
    del Temp_Obj
    return Plain_text

Inspired by http://bytes.com/topic/net/answers/707370-convert-rtf-plain-text

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Anti Earth

Maths is perfect; I am not.

Updated on June 21, 2022

Comments

Anti Earth almost 2 years

I have a QLabel that contains rich text.
I want to extract just the actual (visible) 'text' from the QLabel, and none of the code for formatting.
I essentially need a function similiar to the '.toPlainText' method of other Qt Widgets.

I can not simply call .text() and string manipulate away the html tags as suggested in this thread Get plain text from QString with HTML tags, since the returned QString contains all the <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> nonsense.

How do I extract the plain text?

(I'm open to any method, even if indirect. eg; Pre-existing functions that convert html to plain text)

Thanks!

Specs:
python 2.7.2
PyQt4
Windows 7
Anti Earth over 12 years

Ofcourse the 'del Temp_Obj' is completely unnescessary, but I find it quaint
Anti Earth over 12 years

Oh yeah, bit more direct than my method. Embarrassed I missed that :|