This working code brings up a QFileDialog prompting the user to select a .csv file:

def load(self,fileName=None):if not fileName:fileName=fileDialog.getOpenFileName(caption="Load Existing Radio Log",filter="csv (*.csv)")[0]......

Now, I'd like to change that filter to be more selective. The program saves each project as a set of three .csv files (project.csv, project_fleetsync.csv, project_clueLog.csv) but I only want the file dialog to display the first one (project.csv) in order to avoid presenting the user with too many choices when only a third of them can be handled by the rest of the load() function.

According to this post, it looks like the solution is to use a proxy model. So, I changed the code to the following (all of the commented lines in load() are things I've tried in various combinations):

def load(self,fileName=None):if not fileName:fileDialog=QFileDialog()fileDialog.setProxyModel(CSVFileSortFilterProxyModel(self))
#           fileDialog.setNameFilter("CSV (*.csv)")
#           fileDialog.setOption(QFileDialog.DontUseNativeDialog)
#           fileName=fileDialog.getOpenFileName(caption="Load Existing Radio Log",filter="csv (*.csv)")[0]
#           fileName=fileDialog.getOpenFileName(caption="Load Existing Radio Log")[0]
#           fileDialog.exec_()...
...# code for CSVFileSortFilterProxyModel partially taken from
#  https://github.com/ZhuangLab/storm-control/blob/master/steve/qtRegexFileDialog.py
class CSVFileSortFilterProxyModel(QSortFilterProxyModel):def __init__(self,parent=None):print("initializing CSVFileSortFilterProxyModel")super(CSVFileSortFilterProxyModel,self).__init__(parent)# filterAcceptsRow - return True if row should be included in the model, False otherwise## do not list files named *_fleetsync.csv or *_clueLog.csv#  do a case-insensitive comparison just in casedef filterAcceptsRow(self,source_row,source_parent):print("CSV filterAcceptsRow called")source_model=self.sourceModel()index0=source_model.index(source_row,0,source_parent)# Always show directoriesif source_model.isDir(index0):return True# filter filesfilename=source_model.fileName(index0)
#       filename=self.sourceModel().index(row,0,parent).data().lower()print("testing lowercased filename:"+filename)if filename.count("_fleetsync.csv")+filename.count("_clueLog.csv")==0:return Trueelse:return False

When I call the load() function, I do get the "initializing CSVFileSortFilterProxyModel" output, but apparently filterAcceptsRow is not getting called: there is no "CSV filterAcceptsRow called" output, and, the _fleetsync.csv and _clueLog.csv files are still listed in the dialog. Clearly I'm doing something wrong...?

Found the solution at another stackoverflow question here.

From that solution:

The main thing to watch out for is to calldialog.setOption(QFileDialog::DontUseNativeDialog) beforedialog.setProxyModel.

Also it looks like you then have to use fileDialog.exec_() rather than fileDialog.getOpenFileName. The value you set to setNameFilter does show up in the filter cyclic field of the non-native dialog, but is effectively just for decoration since the proxymodel filter overrides it. In my opinion that is a good thing since you can put wording in the filter cyclic that would indicate something useful to the user as to what type of filtering is going on.

Thanks to users Frank and ariwez.

UPDATE: to clarify, here's the full final code I'm using:

def load(self,fileName=None):if not fileName:fileDialog=QFileDialog()fileDialog.setOption(QFileDialog.DontUseNativeDialog)fileDialog.setProxyModel(CSVFileSortFilterProxyModel(self))fileDialog.setNameFilter("CSV Radio Log Data Files (*.csv)")fileDialog.setDirectory(self.firstWorkingDir)if fileDialog.exec_():fileName=fileDialog.selectedFiles()[0]else: # user pressed cancel on the file browser dialogreturn
... (the rest of the load function processes the selected file)
...# code for CSVFileSortFilterProxyModel partially taken from
#  https://github.com/ZhuangLab/storm-control/blob/master/steve/qtRegexFileDialog.py
class CSVFileSortFilterProxyModel(QSortFilterProxyModel):def __init__(self,parent=None):
#       print("initializing CSVFileSortFilterProxyModel")super(CSVFileSortFilterProxyModel,self).__init__(parent)# filterAcceptsRow - return True if row should be included in the model, False otherwise## do not list files named *_fleetsync.csv or *_clueLog.csv#  do a case-insensitive comparison just in casedef filterAcceptsRow(self,source_row,source_parent):
#       print("CSV filterAcceptsRow called")source_model=self.sourceModel()index0=source_model.index(source_row,0,source_parent)# Always show directoriesif source_model.isDir(index0):return True# filter filesfilename=source_model.fileName(index0).lower()
#       print("testing lowercased filename:"+filename)# never show non- .csv filesif filename.count(".csv")<1:return Falseif filename.count("_fleetsync.csv")+filename.count("_cluelog.csv")==0:return Trueelse:return False