[Gdal-dev] Python and GDAL drivers

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ivan Lucena wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Is there any reason for not getting the same list of drivers from the
> python extension as from the API or gdalinfo?
> 
>>From Python I got 50 drivers:
> 
>> import gdal
>> gdal.AllRegister()
>> for i in range(1, gdal.GetDriverCount()):
> ... 	drv = gdal.GetDriver(i)
> ... 	drv.GetDescription()
> 'GTiff'
> 'NITF'
> ...
> 
>>From gdalInfo I got 53:
> 
>> gdalinfo --formats
> VRT (rw+): Virtual Raster
> GTiff (rw+): GeoTIFF
> NITF (rw+): National Imagery Transmission Format
> ...
> 
> I also got the 53s when accessing GDAL through the API.
> 
> So "RST" for example, is not available through python:
> 
>> ds = gdal.Open('....rst')
>> print ds
> None
> 
> Do I need to re-run the swig wrappers? How?
> 
> Thanks in advance,

Ivan,

You should not need to rerun swig wrapping as far as I know.

I suspect there is an old GDAL library getting picked up by
the python bindings.  My understanding is that python uses
different shared library / dll search conventions than conventional
applications - at least in some cases.

Best regards,
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