How to fix this errror builtins.TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not builtin_function_or_method

I have a code that allow user to select from desired path folder and display in a QlistWidget the existing docx files.

The problem is that the when the user select a file the system must return the full path of the file. But instead it display the below error:

builtins.TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not
builtin_function_or_method

i know that the error is in FileListSelected function in this line :

p = pathlib.Path(self.fullPath.index)

but do not know how to fix it.

examples this is the result of the CheckPath print:

where these are the existing files in the Download directory.

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code:

from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets from PyQt5.QtCore import (QMimeData) from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (QApplication, QCheckBox, QColorDialog, QDialog, QErrorMessage, QFileDialog, QFontDialog, QFrame, QGridLayout, QInputDialog, QLabel, QLineEdit, QMessageBox, QPushButton, QMenu,QListWidgetItem) from PyQt5.QtWidgets import * import pdfviewer import pathlib from pathlib import Path import os import re from os import path import docx class pdfViewer(pdfviewer.Ui_PdfPreviewWindow): def __init__(self,PdfPreviewObj): pdfviewer.Ui_PdfPreviewWindow.__init__(self) self.PdfPreviewObj =PdfPreviewObj self.setupUi(PdfPreviewObj) self.PdfPreviewObj.show() self.ExportButton.clicked.connect(self.openExport) self.listWidgetPDFlist.clicked.connect(self.FileListSelected) def FileListSelected(self): # Function to select the desired file from the list in the left pane p = pathlib.Path(self.fullPath.index) print("this is P==>{}".format(p)) if self.listWidgetPDFlist.selectedItems(): Item = p , "" , self.listWidgetPDFlist.selectedItems()[0].text() print("this is the cuurent Item =={}".format(Item)) print("===============================================") return Item else: print("!!! NO SELECTED FILE !!!n") def setExistingDirectory(self): # create a pop up fileDirectory Dialog Message in order to select the desired folder. self.fileList= dialog = QDialog() options = QFileDialog.DontResolveSymlinks | QFileDialog.ShowDirsOnly Folder = QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory(dialog, "Open Folder" ,options=options) return Folder def checkPath(self,folder): # Funtion to check the given path for the wanted extension (Files) try: directory=folder whichChecked="" for root,dirs,files in os.walk(directory): for filename in files: if len(self.lineEdit_Ext.text())>0: self.lineEdit_Ext.setStyleSheet("background-color:white") self.lineEdit_Ext.setPlaceholderText("Enter The Filetype Extention Here") if filename.endswith(self.lineEdit_Ext.text()): fullPath=os.path.join(root,filename) print(fullPath) self.fileList.append(fullPath) elif self.rdBtn_docx.isChecked() and filename.endswith("docx") or filename.endswith("doc") : self.fullPath=os.path.join(root,filename) self.p = pathlib.Path(self.fullPath) print("checkpath Full Path=> {}".format(self.p)) oneDir = os.path.join(*self.p.parts[-2:]) print("checkpath Displayed Path => {}".format(oneDir)) print("=========================================") self.fileList.append(oneDir) whichChecked="docx - doc Ext was Selected" if len(self.fileList) > 0: self.lineEdit_Ext.setStyleSheet("bacground-color:white;") self.lineEdit_Ext.setPlaceholderText("{0}".format(whichChecked)) else: self.lineEdit_Ext.setStyleSheet("background-color:Red") self.lineEdit_Ext.setPlaceholderText("No Ext is Specified") self.ListFilesInViewer(self.fileList) # add the list into the listWidgetPDFlist self.SelectAll.setEnabled(True) return folder except Exception as e: print("this error occure {0}".format(e)) def ListFilesInViewer(self,Files): # Function to list all the files in the Left pane for item1 in Files: item = QtWidgets.QListWidgetItem(item1) item.setCheckState(QtCore.Qt.Unchecked) self.listWidgetPDFlist.addItem(item) self.lineEditTotalPDFnumber.setText(str(self.listWidgetPDFlist.count())) if __name__ == "__main__": import sys app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv) PdfPreviewWindow = QtWidgets.QMainWindow() pdfViewerUi = pdfViewer(PdfPreviewWindow) PdfPreviewWindow.show() sys.exit(app.exec_())

pdfviewer.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # Form implementation generated from reading ui file 'C:UserstestDocumentsPython_Projectstests_scriptsqt_creatorwse_stakckOverFlowpdfviewer.ui' # # Created by: PyQt5 UI code generator 5.10.1 # # WARNING! All changes made in this file will be lost! from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets class Ui_PdfPreviewWindow(object): def setupUi(self, PdfPreviewWindow): PdfPreviewWindow.setObjectName("PdfPreviewWindow") PdfPreviewWindow.resize(767, 502) PdfPreviewWindow.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);") self.centralwidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(PdfPreviewWindow) self.centralwidget.setObjectName("centralwidget") self.gridLayout_3 = QtWidgets.QGridLayout(self.centralwidget) self.gridLayout_3.setObjectName("gridLayout_3") self.tabWidget = QtWidgets.QTabWidget(self.centralwidget) self.tabWidget.setMinimumSize(QtCore.QSize(749, 0)) self.tabWidget.setStyleSheet("") self.tabWidget.setTabShape(QtWidgets.QTabWidget.Rounded) self.tabWidget.setTabsClosable(False) self.tabWidget.setTabBarAutoHide(False) self.tabWidget.setObjectName("tabWidget") self.tab = QtWidgets.QWidget() self.tab.setObjectName("tab") self.gridLayout_4 = QtWidgets.QGridLayout(self.tab) self.gridLayout_4.setObjectName("gridLayout_4") self.ExportButton = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.tab) self.ExportButton.setText("") icon = QtGui.QIcon() icon.addPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap(":/export.ico"), QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off) self.ExportButton.setIcon(icon) self.ExportButton.setIconSize(QtCore.QSize(40, 40)) self.ExportButton.setFlat(True) self.ExportButton.setObjectName("ExportButton") self.gridLayout_4.addWidget(self.ExportButton, 2, 2, 1, 3) self.groupBoxPDFlist = QtWidgets.QGroupBox(self.tab) font = QtGui.QFont() font.setPointSize(14) self.groupBoxPDFlist.setFont(font) self.groupBoxPDFlist.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter) self.groupBoxPDFlist.setObjectName("groupBoxPDFlist") self.gridLayout = QtWidgets.QGridLayout(self.groupBoxPDFlist) self.gridLayout.setObjectName("gridLayout") self.SelectAll = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.groupBoxPDFlist) self.SelectAll.setEnabled(True) self.SelectAll.setMinimumSize(QtCore.QSize(0, 0)) self.SelectAll.setText("") icon1 = QtGui.QIcon() icon1.addPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap(":/checkBox.ico"), QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off) self.SelectAll.setIcon(icon1) self.SelectAll.setIconSize(QtCore.QSize(40, 40)) self.SelectAll.setDefault(False) self.SelectAll.setFlat(True) self.SelectAll.setObjectName("SelectAll") self.gridLayout.addWidget(self.SelectAll, 0, 0, 1, 1) spacerItem = QtWidgets.QSpacerItem(89, 20, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Expanding, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Minimum) self.gridLayout.addItem(spacerItem, 0, 1, 1, 1) self.listWidgetPDFlist = QtWidgets.QListWidget(self.groupBoxPDFlist) self.listWidgetPDFlist.setFrameShape(QtWidgets.QFrame.StyledPanel) self.listWidgetPDFlist.setSelectionMode(QtWidgets.QAbstractItemView.SingleSelection) self.listWidgetPDFlist.setObjectName("listWidgetPDFlist") self.gridLayout.addWidget(self.listWidgetPDFlist, 2, 0, 1, 2) self.gridLayout_4.addWidget(self.groupBoxPDFlist, 1, 0, 1, 4) self.groupBox_2 = QtWidgets.QGroupBox(self.tab) font = QtGui.QFont() font.setPointSize(13) font.setBold(False) font.setWeight(50) self.groupBox_2.setFont(font) self.groupBox_2.setStyleSheet("") self.groupBox_2.setAlignment(QtCore.Qt.AlignCenter) self.groupBox_2.setObjectName("groupBox_2") self.formLayout = QtWidgets.QFormLayout(self.groupBox_2) self.formLayout.setObjectName("formLayout") self.horizontalLayout_5 = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout() self.horizontalLayout_5.setObjectName("horizontalLayout_5") self.horizontalLayout_7 = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout() self.horizontalLayout_7.setObjectName("horizontalLayout_7") self.pushButtonOpenFolder = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.groupBox_2) palette = QtGui.QPalette() brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.Button, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.Midlight, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.ButtonText, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.Base, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Active, QtGui.QPalette.Window, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.Button, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.Midlight, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(0, 0, 0)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.ButtonText, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.Base, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Inactive, QtGui.QPalette.Window, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.Button, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.Midlight, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(120, 120, 120)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.ButtonText, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.Base, brush) brush = QtGui.QBrush(QtGui.QColor(255, 255, 255)) brush.setStyle(QtCore.Qt.SolidPattern) palette.setBrush(QtGui.QPalette.Disabled, QtGui.QPalette.Window, brush) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setPalette(palette) font = QtGui.QFont() font.setPointSize(8) font.setBold(False) font.setItalic(False) font.setUnderline(True) font.setWeight(50) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setFont(font) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setMouseTracking(False) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setAutoFillBackground(False) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setText("") icon2 = QtGui.QIcon() icon2.addPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap(":/Open.png"), QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setIcon(icon2) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setIconSize(QtCore.QSize(36, 36)) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setCheckable(False) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setAutoDefault(False) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setDefault(False) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setFlat(True) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setObjectName("pushButtonOpenFolder") self.horizontalLayout_7.addWidget(self.pushButtonOpenFolder) self.verticalLayout_3 = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout() self.verticalLayout_3.setObjectName("verticalLayout_3") self.horizontalLayout_6 = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout() self.horizontalLayout_6.setObjectName("horizontalLayout_6") self.rdBtn_docx = QtWidgets.QRadioButton(self.groupBox_2) self.rdBtn_docx.setText("") icon3 = QtGui.QIcon() icon3.addPixmap(QtGui.QPixmap(":/File Format Doc-507x507"), QtGui.QIcon.Normal, QtGui.QIcon.Off) self.rdBtn_docx.setIcon(icon3) self.rdBtn_docx.setIconSize(QtCore.QSize(30, 30)) self.rdBtn_docx.setObjectName("rdBtn_docx") self.horizontalLayout_6.addWidget(self.rdBtn_docx) self.verticalLayout_3.addLayout(self.horizontalLayout_6) self.lineEdit_Ext = QtWidgets.QLineEdit(self.groupBox_2) font = QtGui.QFont() font.setPointSize(10) self.lineEdit_Ext.setFont(font) self.lineEdit_Ext.setObjectName("lineEdit_Ext") self.verticalLayout_3.addWidget(self.lineEdit_Ext) self.horizontalLayout_7.addLayout(self.verticalLayout_3) self.horizontalLayout_5.addLayout(self.horizontalLayout_7) spacerItem1 = QtWidgets.QSpacerItem(158, 18, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Expanding, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Minimum) self.horizontalLayout_5.addItem(spacerItem1) self.formLayout.setLayout(0, QtWidgets.QFormLayout.SpanningRole, self.horizontalLayout_5) self.gridLayout_4.addWidget(self.groupBox_2, 0, 0, 1, 6) self.horizontalLayout = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout() self.horizontalLayout.setObjectName("horizontalLayout") spacerItem2 = QtWidgets.QSpacerItem(40, 20, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Expanding, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Minimum) self.horizontalLayout.addItem(spacerItem2) self.lineEditTotalPDFnumber = QtWidgets.QLineEdit(self.tab) font = QtGui.QFont() font.setPointSize(12) self.lineEditTotalPDFnumber.setFont(font) self.lineEditTotalPDFnumber.setObjectName("lineEditTotalPDFnumber") self.horizontalLayout.addWidget(self.lineEditTotalPDFnumber) self.labelTotalPDFnumber = QtWidgets.QLabel(self.tab) self.labelTotalPDFnumber.setObjectName("labelTotalPDFnumber") self.horizontalLayout.addWidget(self.labelTotalPDFnumber) self.gridLayout_4.addLayout(self.horizontalLayout, 2, 0, 1, 2) spacerItem3 = QtWidgets.QSpacerItem(502, 20, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Expanding, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Minimum) self.gridLayout_4.addItem(spacerItem3, 2, 5, 1, 1) self.tabWidget.addTab(self.tab, "") self.gridLayout_3.addWidget(self.tabWidget, 0, 1, 1, 1) PdfPreviewWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget) self.menubar = QtWidgets.QMenuBar(PdfPreviewWindow) self.menubar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 767, 21)) self.menubar.setObjectName("menubar") PdfPreviewWindow.setMenuBar(self.menubar) self.statusbar = QtWidgets.QStatusBar(PdfPreviewWindow) self.statusbar.setObjectName("statusbar") PdfPreviewWindow.setStatusBar(self.statusbar) self.retranslateUi(PdfPreviewWindow) self.tabWidget.setCurrentIndex(0) QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(PdfPreviewWindow) def retranslateUi(self, PdfPreviewWindow): _translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate PdfPreviewWindow.setWindowTitle(_translate("PdfPreviewWindow", "فرع التحليل - محرّك البحث ")) self.ExportButton.setToolTip(_translate("PdfPreviewWindow", "<html><head/><body>نسخ</body></html>")) self.groupBoxPDFlist.setTitle(_translate("PdfPreviewWindow", "Files List")) self.SelectAll.setToolTip(_translate("PdfPreviewWindow", "<html><head/><body>Check All Items</body></html>")) self.groupBox_2.setTitle(_translate("PdfPreviewWindow", "Search Panel")) self.pushButtonOpenFolder.setToolTip(_translate("PdfPreviewWindow", "<html><head/><body>فتح مجلّد</body></html>")) self.lineEdit_Ext.setPlaceholderText(_translate("PdfPreviewWindow", "Enter The FileType Extention Here")) self.labelTotalPDFnumber.setText(_translate("PdfPreviewWindow", "Total")) self.tabWidget.setTabText(self.tabWidget.indexOf(self.tab), _translate("PdfPreviewWindow", "البرنامج")) import resources_rc if __name__ == "__main__": import sys app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv) PdfPreviewWindow = QtWidgets.QMainWindow() ui = Ui_PdfPreviewWindow() ui.setupUi(PdfPreviewWindow) PdfPreviewWindow.show() sys.exit(app.exec_())

I just read quickly, but it seems like you have an uncalled function somewhere. Are you sure it's not supposed to be something like self.fullPath().index or self.fullPath.index() ?
– Zuma
Jun 29 at 9:24

self.fullPath().index

self.fullPath.index()

@AlexandreUzan yes stackoverflow.com/tagsbecause fullPath is the variable that handles the return full path from the CheckPath function .... the problem is that i don't know how to transfer the returned full path from the checkPath function into FileListSelected function.
– Pyleb Pyl3b
Jun 29 at 9:56

2 Answers
2

It looks like self.fullPath is already a string since you're doing:

self.fullPath=os.path.join(root,filename)

which returns a string.

So then when you do self.fullPath.index you are calling the index attribute of str which is a builtin function, thus the builtins.TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not builtin_function_or_method.

self.fullPath.index

str

builtins.TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not builtin_function_or_method

My best guess would be to check all the occurrences of self.fullPath to see if it always the object it is supposed to be.

take a look to the update question i added examples
– Pyleb Pyl3b
Jun 29 at 9:46

The issue may be that you return something in the function "setExistingDirectory" and after that you start an elif instead of an if. So the code after the first "return Folder" should not be reached. If it would be reached, it would throw an exception.

That means, that fullPath is never evlaluated.

def setExistingDirectory(self): # create a pop up fileDirectory Dialog Message in order to select the desired folder. self.fileList= dialog = QDialog() options = QFileDialog.DontResolveSymlinks | QFileDialog.ShowDirsOnly Folder = QFileDialog.getExistingDirectory(dialog, "Open Folder" ,options=options) return Folder elif self.rdBtn_docx.isChecked() and filename.endswith("docx") or filename.endswith("doc") : self.fullPath=os.path.join(root,filename)

no it doesn't return the correct full path.
– Pyleb Pyl3b
Jun 29 at 9:24

I see, the FullPath variable is created in setExistingDirectory. You can try and set a breakpoint at the following line: self.p = pathlib.Path(self.fullPath) Maybe it is not possible to reach that point, as it also starts with an elif, which is strange.
– Autrion
Jun 29 at 9:36

OK, there are also some more typos in setExistingDirectory like "return folder" vs. "return Folder".
– Autrion
Jun 29 at 9:40

i will edit the question and add example of the displayed results
– Pyleb Pyl3b
Jun 29 at 9:41

folder is an argument of the checkPath() function
– Pyleb Pyl3b
Jun 29 at 9:54

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