Exporting layer to shapefile using PyQGIS?

Friday, 15 November 2019

I´m using python in QGIS 2.2 and struggling with an error trying this:

# create layer from text
_vlayer = QgsVectorLayer(_ur1, "raw", "delimitedtext")

works fine but:

# export layer to shape
_writer = QgsVectorFileWriter.writeAsVectorFormat\

(_vlayer,"hoppla.shp","utf-8",None,"ESRI Shapefile")

... ends up wiht error code "3" - according to documentation:"ErrCreateLayer".

Answer

It's all about user rights.

Just changed to a directory I'm allowed to write, everything works fine.

_writer = QgsVectorFileWriter.writeAsVectorFormat(_vlayer,r"C:/Users/myName/xx/hoppla.shp","utf-8",None,"ESRI Shapefile")

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