[Qgis-developer] QgsMapLayerRegistry.mapLayers() not available in Python Bindings

[Barry Rowlingson]

Düster Horst wrote:
> With Python I want to get all avalilable map layers from my current
> project. I tried to do this with 
> 
> layerCollection = QgsMapLayerRegistry().instance().mapLayers()
> 
> It doesn't work. I took a look into qgsmaplayerregistry.sip and found
> out that the method mapLayers() is not wrapped until now. What is to do
> to wrap this method. Does exists a workareound to retrieve all project
> layers.

You can get all the layers in the current map canvas from the console thus:

# get the map canvas
mc=iface.getMapCanvas()

# how many layers are there?
nLayers=mc.layerCount()

# loopage:

for l in range(nLayers):
   layer = mc.getZpos(l)
   doSomethingWith(layer)

  - is that good enough?

Barry