WIP-pyshapelib-Unicode issues

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Friday 11 January 2008 18:44, Bram de Greve wrote:
> > cool, I saw some of the commits happening, but hunted the empty shape
> > file problem. (Does somebody know, btw, if such a shape file is
> > legitimate at all?)

> Why would it not be legitimate?  

I don't know. Given Thuban's existance and that it is only reported now,
makes me believe such shapefiles are rare. Also it would not really serve a 
purpose to have an object without geoobject in there.

> I've skimmed the specs and found no 
> such thing (about being illegal).

Okay, good to know! Thanks for looking into the specs.

> It turns out dbfopen.c reads all numbers as double anyway.  Only if it
> things it's an integer and will fit in a C int (and thus be of type
> FTInteger), it casts the double to an int at the very last moment
> possible.  I'm skipping that cast now and use PyLong_FromDouble to
> _always_ cast doubles to long integers iif the number of decimals is
> zero.  That's two errors less in the unittests =)

Sounds like this is the sensible way to go.

Bernhard




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