Automating the updating of the attribute table of a shapefile that is linked to a CSV file

Question

I know this has been discussed before, and I used the code provided by @Joseph in How to join data from excel to an attribute table in QGIS without creating duplicates for my Macros.

I am trying to achieve what @Joseph said, but I am attaching a screenshot of the error that I got when I did what you said. Below is my complete macros code.

'Noviembre_P01' is my shapefile 'project_2_gis_mapping.csv' is the csv file that I want to be able to connect automatically to this shapefile so that whenever my csv is updated, the attribute table in the shapefile also updates itself. 'LOC_CODE' is the common attribute to my .shp and .csv files. 'first_bloo' and 'diagnosis' are the 2 fields I am interested in mainly, out of all the fields in the csv file.

I also did not create a join like he mentioned.

Conversely, will using 'Watch File' in the 'Add Delimited Text Layer' dialogue box server the exact same purpose?

def openProject(): from PyQt4.QtCore import *
import qgis
from qgis.core import QgsMapLayerRegistry, QgsVectorJoinInfo

for layer in QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().mapLayers().values():
    # Change to your shapefile name
    if layer.name() == "Noviembre_P01":
        qgis.utils.iface.setActiveLayer(layer)
        shp = qgis.utils.iface.activeLayer()

for layer in QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().mapLayers().values():
    # Change to your csv name
    if layer.name() == "project_2_gis_mapping.csv":
        qgis.utils.iface.setActiveLayer(layer)
        csv = qgis.utils.iface.activeLayer()

# Set up join parameters
shpField='LOC_CODE'
csvField='LOC_CODE'
joinObject = QgsVectorJoinInfo()
joinObject.joinLayerId = csv.id()
joinObject.joinFieldName = csvField
joinObject.targetFieldName = shpField
shp.addJoin(joinObject)

# Define fields to update and joined fields to copy values from
ip1 = shp.fieldNameIndex('first_bloo') 
ip1_join = shp.fieldNameIndex('project_2_gis_mapping.csv_first_bloo')
ip2 = shp.fieldNameIndex('diagnosis') 
ip2_join = shp.fieldNameIndex('project_2_gis_mapping.csv_diagnosis')

shp.startEditing()
for feat in shp.getFeatures():
    shp.changeAttributeValue(feat.id(), first_bloo, feat.attributes()[first_bloo_join])
    shp.changeAttributeValue(feat.id(), diagnosis, feat.attributes()[diagnosis_join])
shp.commitChanges()

# Remove join 
shp.removeJoin(csv.LOC_CODE())
    pass

Answer 1

The problem is with the last line of code: pass. You can simply remove it as it is not needed in this situation (it is mainly useful with empty functions).

And to explain the error, Python expects all code to be properly indented. The faulty last line is indented more than the previous line and it is not part of a logical group.