[Thuban-list] Python shapelib and OpenGl

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Marco,

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:41:57PM +0100, Marco wrote:
>    I need to put text in OpenGl in a Python-PyGtk application.
>    This text must be in Autocad fonts, then, if I understood correctly,
>    in shp or shx format.
>    I found your python shape library.

you are refering to http://ftp.intevation.de/users/bh/pyshapelib/ ...
It is a python wrapper around the shapelib C library which
can be use to read and write shapefiles.
(http://shapelib.maptools.org/)

>    My question is: it's good for my purpose?
>    I'm thinking to use this library and use their output for making
>    OpenGl lines.

If you need to read .shp and .shx files in python,
you can use the pyshapelib. 
Another possibility to do this would be the ogr part of python-gdal.

Of course you can use the read data to plot the lines
with any plotting technique you have.

Best,
	Bernhard 
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