Determine QGIS Python Executable in Windows
Handy information if you are running scripts from the cmd...
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I have recently been writing several QGIS Python scripts for small one-off tasks. Most times, I just want to execute the script(s) and leverage QGIS built-in libraries and Python functionality, but not necessarily run the code from the QGIS Python console (although that is useful too).
In other words, headless.
QGIS ships with its own Python environment.
To locate the executable’s location, you can use the QGIS Python console like this:
import sys
print(sys.executable)In Windows, you’ll get something like:C:\Program Files\QGIS x.xx\bin\python-qgis.bat
Then, in the cmd, you can run a script like:
“C:\Program Files\QGIS x.xx\bin\python-qgis.bat” my_python_script.py
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