David Trethewey wrote:
> I've had problems trying to read shapefiles using the matplotlib basemap
> toolkit
>
> I can import the shapelib module without error but when I try to read a
> shapefile this happens:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Documents and Settings\David\Desktop\cornwall\try_4828.py",
> line 44, in <module>
> read_4828()
> File "C:\Documents and Settings\David\Desktop\cornwall\try_4828.py",
> line 7, in read_4828
> shp=shapelib.ShapeFile('4828/4828/package/shp/par1851.shp')
> File
> "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\basemap-0.99.1.0001-py2.5-win32.egg\shapelib\shapelib.py",
>
> line 44, in __init__
> self.this = apply(shapelibc.new_ShapeFile,args)
> IOError: new_ShapeFile failed
>
> Anyone know why this might be?
>
> I'm using basemap 0.99.1 on Windows XP
>
> David
David Can you post your shapefile somewhere so I can try it here?
-Jeff
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