Change Deck of Cards 3

Anki Development
1

Hello guys,

I want to be able to programmatically change the decks of certain cards based on search criteria

I found this forum post but it’s not working for me

https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/change-deck-of-cards/16647

this is what I have so far and the error I get is below:

import os

from anki.storage import Collection
from aqt import mw


def main():

    anki_home = r"C:\Users\asdf\AppData\Roaming\Anki2\User 1"
    anki_collection_path = os.path.join(anki_home, "collection.anki2")

    # load anki collection
    collection = Collection(anki_collection_path, log=True)

    anki_search_query = r"qwerqwerqwerqwer OR zxcvzxcvzxcvzxcv OR asdfzxcvzxcv"


    if anki_search_query:
        print("anki_search_query")
        print(anki_search_query)

        # returns iterable of note IDs based on query like in Anki browser search
        search = collection.find_cards(query=anki_search_query)
        # search = col.find_notes(query=anki_search_query)
    else:
        print("Anki search query empty")
        return

    deck_orig_id = 1660396300887
    deck_dest_id = 1660396331602

    mw.col.decks.setDeck(search, deck_dest_id)


    # save it
    collection.save()

    print()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Anki leetcode remove tags.py", line 88, in <module>
    main()
  File "Anki leetcode remove tags.py", line 65, in main
    mw.col.decks.setDeck(search, deck_dest_id)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'col'

it seems like in the initialization of mw, it gets set to None and I’m not sure how to fix that

2

It looks like your code is being ran before the main window (mw) is initialised. You should use a hook to run your code (either the hook main_window_did_init or profile_did_open should be appropriate here)

More information on hooks can be found here

3

The very first parts of the add-on docs should answer your questions (this in particular). Did you define an __init__.py file in the root of your add-on folder? You don’t need if __name__ == "__main__":

4

solved. it’s possible to call the method set_deck() directly from the collection object from the Anki python package