Add a QGIS vectorlayer by geometry type

Question

I wanted to add a GML layer to my QGIS file, but filtered by geometry type. (the file has multiple geometry types in it, with the same layer name, and same layerID.
I came across this post: iface.addVectorLayer on a gml file causes "Select vector layers to add" dialog (pyqgis).
Here they filter it by "|layername="+name
But how can I filter it by geometry type?

GladH · Answer

You can filter it by "|geometrytype=Point" or "|geometrytype=CurvePolygon" or "|geometrytype=LineString"
It will look something like this:
vlayer = QgsVectorLayer(file_open + "|geometrytype=Point", "vlayer_name", "ogr")
if not vlayer.isValid():
    print("Layer failed to load!")
else:
    QgsProject.instance().addMapLayer(vlayer)

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