[Qgis-developer] Getting and setting attribute field names and values for vector layers

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi Ole,

2011/12/7 Ole Nielsen <ole.moller.nielsen at gmail.com>:
> Thanks for that - I wouldn't have known where to look. But this does the
> trick - although for my application I did have a need to explicitly convert
> the QString types to unicode.
> I looked at methods toAscii() and toLatin1() but neither produced the python
> string types I was expecting. Can you comment on that?

To convert QString into Python string use str() or unicode() functions.
For example, in code

attrs = feat.attributeMap()
for (k,attr) in attrs.iteritems():
   name = fields[ k ].name()
   print "%s: %s" % (name, unicode(attr.toString()))
   # print "%s: %s" % (name, str(attr.toString()))

-- 
Alexander Bruy
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