remove shape layers

[tkwasnitschka]

My shapes are organized in layers, or, groups. Right-click allows you to remove the layer and its shapes, which is what I want.

How do you do that in python?

or, looking at my code:

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for i in camgroups:
newchunk = chunk.copy()
newchunk.label = chunk.label+"_group_"+str(i)
# delete the other cameragroups
newchunk.remove(newchunk.camera_groups[i+1:])
newchunk.remove(newchunk.camera_groups[:i])
# delete the other shapegroups (this is the part that does not work)
newchunk.remove(newchunk.shapes.groups[i+1:])
newchunk.remove(newchunk.shapes.groups[:i])

And, please: Why are they called layers in the gui and in Alexeys scripts but groups in the python API?
Many thanks!
Tom

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello Tom,

You need to remove the shapes from the layer first, then remove the layers.

For example, the following code remove the last shape layer in the chunk:

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for shape in list(chunk.shapes):
    if shape.group == chunk.shapes.groups[-1]:
        chunk.shapes.remove(shape)
chunk.shapes.remove(chunk.shapes.groups[-1])