Shapefile reader in Python?

python gis shapefile
Zameer Manji picture Zameer Manji · Dec 5, 2010 · Viewed 20.4k times · Source

Are there any libraries that I can use to read a shp/shx/dbf/sbx set of files? I mainly need to extract some polygons but something that lets me extract any data that I want would be awesome.

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user225312 picture user225312 · Dec 5, 2010

The pyshp library should be good.

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