Select Text Of Textedit Object With Qtextcursor, Qtextedit

I have a textEdit field and I want to process some selected text within this field (but not the format of it). So far, I connect the button with: QtCore.QObject.connect(self.ui.myt

Solution 1:

Answering my own question. Posting here for fellow Python noobs:

Get the selected text:

cursor = self.ui.editor_window.textCursor()
textSelected = cursor.selectedText()

insert back the text into your editor.

self.ui.editor_window.append(s) 

There are also alternatives to append(), for inserting the text into the original text. So, to put a selected text into uppercase:

defmytext(self):
        cursor = self.ui.editor_window.textCursor()
        textSelected = cursor.selectedText()
        s = textSelected.upper()
        self.ui.editor_window.append(s)