[mapserver-users] python-mapscript

[Lowell.Filak]

I believe you are correct.
I apologize for the confusion in the example.
The example is corrected.
Lowell F.

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Michael Schulz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> once again a python-mapscript question. What is the correct way to get a
> handle to an associated DBFInfoObj of a shapefileObj? The
> PerlMapscriptExamples (
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PerlMapScriptExamples35ex5
> ) show this using a method of the shapefileObj named "hDBF", which seems
> to be not existing in the last releases (it is in 3.5, but not in 3.6).
>
> But i can open a dbf file with "msDBFOpen", which returns exactly a
> handle to a DBFInfoObj, but you have to provide the name of the dbf
> instead of it being a method(?) of the shapefileObj. Are these
> "msDBFxxxx" new methods, that are replacing old ones?
>
> Thanks, Michael
>
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