Chapter 6. Extending QGIS with Python
This chapter is an introduction to scripting QGIS with Python. Of course, a full-blown Python tutorial would be out of scope for this book. The examples here therefore assume a minimum proficiency of working with Python. Python is a very accessible programming language even if you are just getting started, and it has gained a lot of popularity in both the open source and proprietary GIS world, for example, ESRI's ArcPy or PyQGIS. QGIS currently supports Python 2.7, but there are plans to support Python 3 in the upcoming QGIS 3.x series. We will start with an introduction to actions and then move on to the QGIS Python Console, before we go into more advanced development of custom tools for the Processing Toolbox ...
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