Some time ago I've started with porting Tim's tutorials posted in the blog to Python. The main reason
of doing it was to check that bindings work correctly. I thought that some people might be interested in using them so you can download them.

Download the tutorials:

• new version: >= 0.9.2 or SVN
• old version: 0.9.0 or 0.9.1

UPDATE (Jan 24, 2008): Updated with API changes which will become QGIS 0.9.2

UPDATE (May 5, 2007): Fixed tutorial 6 which was broken due API changes in vector providers.

Instructions

1. unpack archive
2. for every tutorial in mainwindow.py set 'qgis_path' variable to your qgis installation prefix
   (needed for loading providers, projections database etc.)

3. set environment variables:

   Linux: (when /home/wonder/qgis is used)

   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/wonder/qgis/lib
   export PYTHONPATH=/home/wonder/qgis/share/qgis/python

   Windows (when c:\qgis is used)

   set PATH=c:\qgis;%PATH%
   set PYTHONPATH=c:\qgis\python

   PYTHONPATH is there to tell python where to search for QGIS Python bindings, LD_LIBRARY_PATH (resp. PATH)
   tells system where to look for QGIS libraries that Python bindings need to work.

4. run examples: python mainwindow.py

For running the tutorials you need QGIS from recent SVN trunk (>= r6833).

Remember that when you modify the UI or resource files, you must run 'make' to recreate files generated by pyuic4 and pyrcc4.

Copyright plugin in Python

For testing purposes I've ported also plugin for displaying copyright text from C++ to Python.
This can be helpful in case you plan to develop a Python plugin and would like to have a simple
example. It doesn't have any new functionality in comparison to original plugin. Download it here.

To run it just unpack the archive and copy the unpacked directory to python plugins dir - that's (qgis_prefix)/share/qgis/python/plugins on Linux/Mac or (qgis_prefix)/python/plugins on Windows. You might need to create 'plugins' directory if it doesn't exist yet. More information about python plugins is on wiki.