[Gdal-dev] help with OGR->python

[Dylan Beaudette]

Greetings:

After struggling with trying to get vector data into GMT with GRASS, I started 
playing with the OGR bindings in python.

however, after 2 hours I have not been able to do something as simple as 
extract the geometry of polygons in a shapefile...

I am trying to construct a small python program to convert a shapefile into a 
list of coordinates, with a few GMT-specific markers at the start of each 
polygon.

Does anyone know of an existing tool for this job? or perhaps some example 
python code for reading a simply polygon shapefile?

Thanks in advance!

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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341