Creating polygon out of list of points QgsPointXY

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I am attempting to create a simple polygon on QGIS 3.14 using PyQGIS by adapting the code from How to draw polygons from the python console?.
I am running into an error with the setGeometry line where the function fromPolylineXY appears to need a QgsPointXY object but the pts object is a list.
Code so far is listed below.
tmp = QgsVectorLayer('Polygon?crs=epsg:29194', '200905_Bdy',"org") #Layer for polygon 
prv = tmp.dataProvider()                               #Data object for polygon layer
ply01 = QgsFeature()                                   #Object for polygon
# Object with polygon verticies
pts = [QgsPointXY(396100,8969000),QgsPointXY(396100,8973900),QgsPointXY(397900,8973900),QgsPointXY(397900,8969000)]
ply01.setGeometry(QgsGeometry.fromPolylineXY([pts]))

Kadir Şahbaz · Answer

You should use fromPolygonXY instead of fromPolylineXY to create a polygon.
Use ply01.setGeometry(QgsGeometry.fromPolygonXY([pts]))
If you want to create a polyline before creating a polygon, you should know this: pts object is a list. And fromPolylineXY expects "a list of QgsPointXY". When you use extra brackets like [pts], it will be a list of list of QgsPointXY ([[QgsPointXY, QgsPointXY, ...]]).
To create o polyline you should remove the bracket in fromPolylineXY([pts]) to get a list of QgsPointXY. Just use fromPolylineXY(pts).
Briefly;
To create a polygon from point list: QgsGeometry.fromPolygonXY([pts])
To create a polyline from point list: QgsGeometry.fromPolylineXY(pts)

Creating polygon out of list of points QgsPointXY

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