I calculate the azimuth of a vector and update a field in my QGIS 2.0 Python 2.7 plugin. This works currently, but it takes much longer than i'd like to. I believe it is because i'm querying the data source on every call. Any suggestions on updating the fields all in one go as was suggested in another one of my questions? I'm having issues trying to adapt the suggestion for this particular evaluate function.
self.rotateLayer.startEditing()
bear_idx = self.rotateLayer.fieldNameIndex('angleRot')
bearCalc = QgsExpression('(atan((xat(-1)-xat(0))/(yat(-1)-yat(0)))) * 180/3.14159 + (180 *(((yat(-1)-yat(0)) < 0) + (((xat(-1)-xat(0)) < 0 AND (yat(-1) - yat(0)) >0)*2)))')
bearCalc.prepare(self.rotateLayer.pendingFields())
for fields in self.rotateLayer.getFeatures():
fields[bear_idx] = bearCalc.evaluate(fields)
self.rotateLayer.updateFeature(fields)
self.rotateLayer.commitChanges()