Python Script Another Discrepency

[Ofnuts]

It looks like you are using the PDB to make API calls. This is unnecessary, and terribly protracted. This also means that the returned value is a tuple with 1) a status (PDBStatusType.SUCCESS) and 2) the value you want: (<Gimp.GroupLayer object at 0x7f70a7ebb180 (GimpGroupLayer at 0x5561a26ba060)>) .

So either:

• you unpack all you calls: success, group = procedure.run(config);
  
• you forego the PDB (just usable to call plugins) and use the API directly: group=layer.get_parent()
  

Choose wisely. The "direct" API is described here: Gimp – 3.0. If used properly, your Gimp3 code is shorter and more readable than your Gimp2 code. And if used cleverly, your IDE can catch most  errors before you run the code. In Gimp v2, on a simple script, 75% of my runs where just catching plain code errors (like wrong arguments, etc...) vs 25% for logic error and real debugging. Now I am 5%-95%. The number of logic errors is about the same, but the code runs decently on first try in most cases.