QGIS Quick Start Guide

Inspecting the layer

We can look at each layer by accessing some of the properties. To get the name of the layer, use the .name() function:

Airport_layer.name()

The output is as follows:

'airports'

To count the number of records in the layer, use the featureCount() function:

Airport_layer.featureCount()

The output is as follows:

76

To print the attributes for all these 76 layers, use a for loop:

airportFeatures = Airport_layer.getFeatures()for feature in airportFeatures:    print (feature.attributes()

Remember to use the indentation. The result will look similar to this:

The QGIS Python Console printing out the attribute table