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Using the Python console

Using the Python console - QGIS Tutorial

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Using the Python console

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to look at the Python console inside of QGIS. We're also going to run a few Python scripts just to try out the console. First, we have to figure out how to turn on the console inside the QGIS interface. There's a number of ways of doing it. One, under plugins, you can choose Python console. You can also toggle it on and off. The other way to do it is using some of the icons. In the menu, you can go Python console and toggle that on and off, or you can hold down the Control, the Alt and the P key, and that will turn the console on and off. Next, let's add some data so we can play with it using Python. So inside of our Exercise Files, 1 Beginning Python, DATA, let's drag and drop the BUILDINGS.shp file into our map. The first thing you'll see is what sort of transformation or coordinate system we're going to use. We're definitely going to choose the UTM zone 10 NAD83. And there we…

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