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I want to add a layer in QGIS that is editable and has Add Polygon Feature selected (by default). I can easily accomplish the editable part by this command:

layer = QgsVectorLayer("Polygon?crs=epsg:4326", "temporary_points", "memory")
layer.startEditing()
#Something more here?
QgsProject.instance().addMapLayer(layer)

A bonus question is why it takes extremely long time to get the saving popup when I have that as a part of my code? (and none when I run it from the Python Console)

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  • Not sure about your bonus question - what do you mean the saving popup? Can you edit your question to show this line of code?
    – 15Step
    Commented Apr 2, 2018 at 13:53
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    The "problem" was that I declared the variable self.layer = QgsVectorLayer(...) in that part of the code. The solution was to make no changes in that part but just add a self.layer = None in the init function.
    – axel_ande
    Commented Apr 2, 2018 at 15:26

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Here's a way to select Add Polygon feature programmatically:

layer = QgsVectorLayer("Polygon?crs=epsg:4326", "temporary_points", "memory")
layer.startEditing()
qgis.utils.iface.actionAddFeature().trigger() #Yep, something here.
QgsProject.instance().addMapLayer(layer)
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