export shp positions to csv pyqgis

Question

I'm trying to export positions of a set of points using pyqgis

I saw the numerous posts concerning exporting shp dataset to csv but the command used in all of them is not working.

• How to write vector layer to csv file with geometry by PYTHON?
• Create a csv with geometry as WKT in QGIS (and choosing the field delimiter)
• Save as .csv with coordinates in both QGIS 2.2 and PyqGIS

My code line is:

QgsVectorFileWriter.writeAsVectorFormat(final_palmtrees_layer, result_path+'_trees_pos.csv', "utf-8", None, "CSV", layerOptions ='GEOMETRY=AS_XY')

There are two issues with this line

• I wrote it in the console and i'm getting a "7" error code in the console, but I cannot find what it means.
• I put it in a script and i'm getting the csv file but only the attributes, not the points position + excel tells that the file is corrupted

Answer 1

Solved the issue by:

• adding 'r' in front of the path: r'C:\...\xy.csv'
• use a list and not a string as layerOptions parameter

Thanks Joseph