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Hi Raymond,<br>
AFAIK you need to use setDataSource [1] directly on the layer an not
setDataSourceUri on the data provider.<br>
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layer.setDataSource(new_ds, layer_name, 'ogr')<br>
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Best regards.<br>
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Andrea<br>
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[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://qgis.org/pyqgis/master/core/QgsMapLayer.html#qgis.core.QgsMapLayer.setDataSource">https://qgis.org/pyqgis/master/core/QgsMapLayer.html#qgis.core.QgsMapLayer.setDataSource</a><br>
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