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I am using QGIS 1.7.4., downloaded April 2012, but receive an import error loading the class QgsVectorFieldSymbolLayer. As i understand this class has been added in the Python bindings on 2011-11-15. Does anybody know whether this class has already been included and if so, what else can be wrong?

No, while executing a Python script. First line:

from qgis.core import (QgsSymbolLayerV2Registry, QgsDataSourceURI, QgsVectorLayer, QgsVectorFieldSymbolLayer, QgsSymbolLayerV2AbstractMetadata, QgsCoordinateReferenceSystem, QgsMapLayer, QgsField, QgsComposition, QgsComposerLegend, QgsComposerLabel, QgsRectangle, QgsFeature, QgsMapLayerRegistry, QgsGraduatedSymbolRendererV2, QgsSymbolV2, QgsRendererRangeV2, QgsMarkerSymbolLayerV2)

All classes are imported okay, except QgsVectorFieldSymbolLayer.

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When do you get this error? On loading QGIS? – Nathan W Apr 23 '12 at 23:48

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The QGIS 1.7.4 release does not have a .sip file for that binding.

It is, however, present in the master branch, having been added about 5 months ago, as you have noted. Currently, QGIS is in a feature freeze for version 1.8. The developers have also decided to not have a 1.8 branch, but create a release from the master branch. So, at this time, I not quite sure if that class will be available via Python in 1.8 (though I surmise it will be).

You might consider posting your question to the the developers list.

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If you want to work with the new binding, you could try compiling QGIS yourself. Not too bad once you have the prerequisites installed. All in the well-annotated INSTALL doc. If you're on Mac OS X 10.7.3, you might take a look at a simple bash script I wrote for generating a nightly build. – dakcarto Apr 25 '12 at 1:59
Many thanks for this answer. I understand it just needs some time. I will post the question to the developers list. – user7139 Apr 25 '12 at 11:06
@Sebastian: Please consider accepting the answer. – underdark♦ May 25 '12 at 12:54

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