Paul,
I stopped work on the SWIG wrappers for GEOS for three reasons
1) Abominable Python API derived from GEOS C++ (personal taste,
admittedly)
2) Instability of C++ API between 2.2 and 3.0
3) Accessing libgeos_c via libffi and ctypes is more portable
As far as I know, Charlie is still supporting Ruby through SWIG, and I
think that means that Python support remains pretty close. I do think
that Python users should be using Shapely (outside of GeoDjango), but
realize that people may want other options. Shapely requires Python
2.4, and one could generate wrappers with SWIG that would work with
2.2 or 2.3.
Sean
On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
Sean,
I've never really grokked the pythonic state of affairs. Let me try
and relay my guess: the python code in GEOS svn is orphaned; all
pythonic work is largely flowing through shapely now, which doesn't
need any code in the GEOS svn. Is that right? If so, I'd like to
replace the python code in the release with a README that says "go use
shapely".
P
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From: GEOS <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Subject: [geos-devel] [GEOS] #228: import python bindings fails
To: undisclosed-recipients
#228: import python bindings fails
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Reporter: martinm | Owner: [email protected]
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: 3.1.0
Component: Default | Version: 3.1.0rc1
Severity: Unassigned | Keywords:
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Importing python module fails:
{{{
import geos
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/geos/geos.py", line 60, in
<module>
class PySwigIterator(object):
File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/geos/geos.py", line 64, in
PySwigIterator
__swig_destroy__ = _geos.delete_PySwigIterator
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute
'delete_PySwigIterator'
}}}
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/228>
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