[Qgis-user] Close QGIS via PyQGIS

[Ujaval Gandhi]

The way to do this is to launch a new QGIS instance without GUI, run your
pyqgis code and then exit.

qgs = QgsApplication([], False)
qgs.initQgis()

.<your pyqgis code>

qgs.exitQgis()

See a full example at
https://courses.spatialthoughts.com/pyqgis-in-a-day.html#writing-standalone-python-scripts
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On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 7:48 PM Christoph Jung <jagodki.cj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I want to create a scheduled task with opening QGIS, run a python script
> and close the application at the end. Is it possible to close the current
> QGIS application via PyQGIS? Or does anybody knows a better way to close
> QGIS at the end of the task?
>
> Sincerely,
> Christoph
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