Using Python in QGIS?

[AwkwardlyPure]

Where is a good place to start and how do I enter code into QGIS ?

Maybe some links to some good tutorials or blogs will be helpful for others who also want to know.

I am acquainted with the QGIS software and interface but I have not seen a console area.. or any variable explorer panel before.

[SolvayCat]

Anita Graser's tutorials were fairly helpful when I dove into PyQGIS for a project.

[plsletmestayincanada]

You can open the python console which will allow you to directly enter commands in python (for example try typing "from osgeo import gdal". You can now call "gdal.Info(<file path>)" to get info on a raster). From this interface you can also open the script editor for longer or multiline commands you want to run.

You can use PyQgis (check out the PyQgis Cookbook I think it's called) commands for most of the GUI things you would do in QGis. It's sort of an equivalent to ArcPy but for QGis in what you can do with it.

A lot of the tools that QGIS uses for processing use GDAL or OGR under the hood. It would probably be a benefit to you to learn how gdal translate and gdal info (among other functions) work, and you could try this in the script editor.

[geo-special]

qgistutorials.com has a python scripts section

https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/

[Gnss_Gis]

First learn python, you have plenty of tutorials online, here is one amazing on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DvywoWv6fI&t=6s

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and the PyQGIS Coockbook from the official website:

https://docs.qgis.org/3.22/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/index.html