Making File Dialog only accept directories

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I want to have a file dialog only allow directories, here's what I've been trying:

fileDialog = QtGui.QFileDialog() fileDialog.setFileMode(QtGui.QFileDialog.ShowDirsOnly) filename = fileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, 'Select USB Drive Location'))

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