Just don't run the uninstall command and you'll be fine. Btw, I'm not sure
you can pip install shapely on Windows, I think you'll have to manually
download and run an installer .exe.


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Harasty, Daniel J <dhara...@appcomsci.com>wrote:

> I see the warning to Windows users of Shapely:
>
> Warning: Windows users: do not under any circumstances use pip (or
> easy_install) to uninstall Shapely versions < 1.2.17. Due to the way
> Shapely used to install its GEOS DLL and a distribute or setuptools bug,
> your Python installation may be broken by an uninstall command. Shapely
> 1.2.17 will uninstall safely.
>
>
>
> I'd like to *update* to Shapely 1.3.  I'm currently using Shapely 1.2.14
> (on Windows 7 with Python 2.6 32-bit).
>
>
>
> Do I simply use:
>
>
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> pip install shapely --upgrade
>
>
>
> to safely avoid the problem mentioned in the Warning?
>
>
>
> If not: what is my migration path to Shapely 1.3?
>
>
>
> I looked for this info in the Shapely docs but didn't see it; apologies if
> I overlooked it.
>
>
>
> Dan Harasty
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