Detecting enter on a QLineEdit or QPushButton

For the QLineEdit connect to the returnPressed signal.

Alternatively, if you use the setAutoDefault method on your QPushButtons you emit the clicked signal when Enter is pressed on a focused QPushButton:

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-

import sip
sip.setapi('QString', 2)
sip.setapi('QVariant', 2)

from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore

class MyWindow(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(MyWindow, self).__init__(parent)

        self.pushButtonOK = QtGui.QPushButton(self)
        self.pushButtonOK.setText("OK")
        self.pushButtonOK.clicked.connect(self.on_pushButtonOK_clicked)
        self.pushButtonOK.setAutoDefault(True)

        self.lineEditNumber = QtGui.QLineEdit(self)
        self.lineEditNumber.returnPressed.connect(self.pushButtonOK.click)
        
        self.layoutHorizontal = QtGui.QHBoxLayout(self)
        self.layoutHorizontal.addWidget(self.pushButtonOK)
        self.layoutHorizontal.addWidget(self.lineEditNumber)

    @QtCore.pyqtSlot()
    def on_pushButtonOK_clicked(self):
        inputNumber = self.lineEditNumber.text()
        if inputNumber.isdigit():
            info = "You selected `{0}`"

        else:
            info = "Please select a number, `{0}` isn't valid!"

        print info.format(inputNumber)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    app.setApplicationName('MyWindow')
    
    main = MyWindow()
    main.show()
    
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

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