selectionChanged connection is being called twice

Question

I have this function with: self.iface.mapCanvas().selectionChanged.connect(self.openThePano)

which waits for a feature selection change to connect to the function openThePano the issue is that once a single feature is selected the function is called twice and there is only one line that has this signal.

example code:

def actualapp(self):
    #waits for the signal
    self.iface.mapCanvas().selectionChanged.connect(self.openThePano)

def openThePano(self,fId):
    #gets the feature's attributes
    featget = fId.selectedFeatures()
    atributos = [i.attributes() for i in featget]

    source = ogr.Open(self.shproute)
    layer = source.GetLayer() 
    schema = [] 
    ldef = layer.GetLayerDefn()
    for n in range(ldef.GetFieldCount()): # gets the attributes' names
        fdef = ldef.GetFieldDefn(n)
        schema.append(fdef.name)

    # This loop prints attributes of the selected feature and is being printed twice.
    for i in range(len(atributos[0])): 
        print('{}: {}'.format(str(schema[i]),str(atributos[0][i])))

    self.iface.actionZoomToSelected().trigger() 

I expect it to only print once the list of attributes but for some reason I ignore it does it twice, any ideas?

Answer 1

I had the same issue in the past : i think the signal is triggered when the selection changes that means (if u make one by one feature selections ...) that the signal is triggered when your previous feature is deselected AND your next feature is selected ...

The case of multiple feature selection must be handled by your code too ...

See link and api doc of course ...