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Pyshp is a pure Python shapefile library which can be used to read, write and edit ESRI shapefiles.

Pyshp is an open source library which provides a python interface to ESRI shapefiles, following the Official ESRI Shapefile Specification.

Documentation and download information is provided at the pyshp project page including code samples and more detailed use cases.

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Does pyshp read .prj files properly?

I want to read a shapefile using pyshp: sf = shapefile.Reader(('/tmp/India_PCs_Boundary_4_2_19/India_PCs_Boundary.shp')) but when I look at the result, the polygons look all squishy and distorted; they're supposed to exactly cover India, but they…
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pyshp problem with naturalearthdata-shapefile

I am trying to follow the example at https://code.google.com/p/pyshp/wiki/ShapeRecords by entering the following code: import shapefile r = shapefile.Reader("ne_110m_admin_0_countries") sr = r.shapeRecords() However, it gives this error-message…
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Using PyShp to create polygon shapefiles?

I have a script for creating points shapefiles, but I can not fix it for make a new polyline shp file. I have obtained the data from a excel file and extract data in three differents lists Lon,lat,label import shapefile as shp from openpyxl import…
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