How to read from QTextedit in python?

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I created the GUI using QTDesigner and save the file as .ui extension. Then convert the file to .py file using the following code ``` pyuic4 -x test.ui -o test.py ``` Now I want to integrate my project code to this test.py file. Since I am new to pyqt4, I dont know how to read text from text edit and save to file and viceversa. Following is my code. ``` from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui from final_ar_gui import * try: _fromUtf8 = QtCore.QString.fromUtf8 except AttributeError: _fromUtf8 = lambda s: s class Ui_AnaphoraResolution(object): def setupUi(self, AnaphoraResolution): AnaphoraResolution.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("AnaphoraResolution")) AnaphoraResolution.resize(608, 620) self.textEdit = QtGui.QTextEdit(AnaphoraResolution) self.textEdit.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 110, 271, 341)) self.textEdit.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("textEdit")) self.textEdit_2 = QtGui.QTextEdit(AnaphoraResolution) self.textEdit_2.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(310, 110, 271, 341)) self.textEdit_2.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("…

Accepted Answer

If all you need is the displayed text in your QTextEdit widget, you can access that by using the `toPlainText()` method on the widget you need the text from.

Example:

```
mytext = self.textEdit.toPlainText()
```

At this point, you can do whatever you want with `mytext`. You can write it to a file, you can manipulated it, etc.

If you need to (re)populate your `QTextEdit` with the modified value of `mytext`, you can do that by using `setPlainText`

```
self.textEdit.setPlainText(mytext)
```

To write the string to a file, you'll do something like this:

```
with open('somefile.txt', 'a') as f:
    f.write(mytext)
```

This will append `mytext` to `somefile.txt`

How to read from QTextedit in python?

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