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<div>I’m trying to get the python bindings to the ogr library working with esri file geodatabase (filegdb) support. I am using the latest version of ms4w package that includes gdal/ogr 1.9.</div>
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<div>I have created a esri file geodatabase driver, then from that created a data source, but am unable to access layers from the data source object. Below is a quick summary of my code:</div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2"> drvrObj = osgeo.ogr.GetDriverByName(r<font color="#00AA00"><i>'FileGDB'</i></font>) <font color="#808080"># print the driver </font><font color="#808080"><u>retunrs</u></font><font color="#808080"> a SWIG
object</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2"> path = str(r<font color="#00AA00"><i>'C:\</i></font><font color="#00AA00"><u><i>testdatadir</i></u></font><font color="#00AA00"><i>\arc10geodb.gdb'</i></font>)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2"> mydataSrc = drvrObj.Open(path) <font color="#808080"># printing the data source prints a SWIG object</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2"> <u>lyrCnt</u> = mydataSrc.GetLayerCount() <font color="#808080"># always returns 0 but there are many layers in the </font><font color="#808080"><u>fgdb</u></font></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2"> <u>lyr</u> = mydataSrc.GetLayer(<font color="#800000">0</font>) <font color="#808080"># always returns null</font></font></div>
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<div>The comments in the code above kind of summarize the situation. It appears that I can create a valid datasource but am unable to read the layers inside the datasource. Any ideas?</div>
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