Hey Stephen,it's not a dumb question at all! The QGIS Python console+editor's autocompletion is pretty misleading as it will suggest pretty much anything it can find anywhere in the code base, with no regards if the object or class you are currently working with actually has that "thing". At least that how it seems to me. :}
In my experience it's best to ignore it for programming purposes and only treat it as way to save typing some characters.
As for your errors, "xxx is not an attribute of yyy" means that there is no yyy.xxx. This is not something you can import. yyy is an object and will be checked live at runtime when Python tries to access its xxx attribute (yyy.xxx). If .xxx does not exist for yyy, then that's the way it is, you are on the wrong path :)
You can find out which attributes and methods your objects have by using dir(yyy) or via the API documentation via help(yyy) or online at https://qgis.org/pyqgis/master/index.html (make sure to choose the correct version corresponsing to your QGIS).
Cheers, Hannes Am 28.03.22 um 18:33 schrieb Stephen Sacks via Qgis-user:
Please pardon what may be a dumb question from a self- (half-) taught student of Python. I often steal fragments of code from the internet (especially including this forum) and sometimes get an error message like "xxx is not an attribute of yyy" . My problem, I think, is a missing " from xyz import abc". My question to you now is whether there is some way to know what to import, and from which module, for any particular Python statement. More specifically, I get this error message:AttributeError: 'QgsEditFormConfig' object has no attribute 'setHidden' when I run the following code: from qgis.core import QgsProject from qgis.core import * from qgis.utils import iface from qgis.core import * from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QInputDialog from PyQt5.QtWidgets import * from qgis.PyQt.QtCore import * from qgis.gui import * def oneA( lyr, columnName, option ): flds= lyr.fields() indx = flds.indexOf(columnName) config = lyr.editFormConfig() config.setHidden(indx, option) lyr.setEditFormConfig(config) lyr = iface.activeLayer() aField = 'NAME' oneA (lyr, aField, True)When I type this code in the QGIS environment, autocompletion leads me to believe that "setHidden" is allowed after "config." but I must admit I don't understand the meaning of the several choices specified in the parentheses. I'd be grateful if someone would explain that to me. Also, am I correct in thinking that an asterisk following "import" means "everything in this module"?I'm running QGIS 3.16.3 under Windows 10. Thanks in advance for any help.
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