Export Shapefile Attribute to Text File using PyQGIS

Hello there,

Lets use QGIS python scripting (PyQGIS) to create a text file of attributes from a shapefile.

Here I loaded onto QGIS a point layer representing capitals of Nigeria states with four attributes namely: "State_name", "Capital", "Area" and "Population".

Open the python console and with the point layer selected on the layers panel, enter the code below on the console to create an active layer object.

layer = iface.activeLayer()

Deploying python Flask web app on Amazon Lightsail

Hello there,

Let me start off this with this question "What is Flask and Amazon Lightsail"?

Chances are you already know what a Flask web framework is (a light weight python web framework), so I will only give a brief on Amazon Lightsail before we deploy a simple flask app on it.

Amazon Lightsail is a Virtual Private Servers (VPS) which enables you to easily set up servers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. It is also a fast and simple VPS hosting service from Amazon.

Alternatives to Amazon Lightsail include Heroku, DigitalOcean, Linode, Microsoft Azure etc



How to deploy Flask applications on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) running Ubuntu OS, Apache server, and WSGI


Step 1: Use your existing Amazon account or sign up for a new to subscribe for a LightSail VPS service. You can get this for as low as $5 per month.

Step 2: By now you should have you flask app fully developed and ready for deployment. My app is a simple one that doesn't require a database, so I will skip and for of database configuration.