[Gdal-dev] GDAL and Python

[Howard Butler]

A couple of (maybe) useful bits of info.

MS4W has an old-gen GDAL module for Windows 
Python 2.4.  It's broken up into a number of 
pieces, and it might not be that nice to pull 
together, but you should be able to get it to work with some elbow grease.

The "old-gen" GDAL bindings do not have support 
for numpy.  I will be looking into supporting 
this in the "next-gen" GDAL  Python bindings in 
the next couple of weeks.  I have a need for this 
also, and I would like to get it tucked in before 
the next release.  Hopefully, this will remove 
any need for folks to use the "old-gen" bindings 
for anything other than legacy apps.

Python eggs and setuptools support are something that would be nice.

Howard

At 01:08 PM 11/2/2006, Jose Luis Gomez Dans wrote:
>Hi!
>I have noticed that somebody else mentioned the 
>release of numpy 1.0, and the implications for 
>GDAL. My question is however different: at work, 
>we use Enthought Python, a rather useful Python 
>bundle with numpy, scipy, matplotlib and loads 
>of extra packages. On top of that, we use the 
>GDAL bindings. So far, we have made do with 
>FWTools and Enthought, as they are compatible 
>(python 2.3), but there's a sea change when 
>Enthought upgrades from Numeric to Numpy and 
>from python 2.3 to 2.4. Apart from compiling 
>from source (we have no experience on this), 
>what would be the "recommended best way" of using GDAL with Enthought be?
>
>One nice thing would be for the Enthought guys 
>to package GDAL with their Python. This is hard 
>to do, and not something that ranks high as a 
>priority for them. They have suggested that if 
>users can provide a recipe to build an egg 
><http://www.python-eggs.org/> for Windows and 
>Linux, they'd be happy to carry that and distribute it.
>
>The question being whether anyone might be 
>willing to do this :) I think it would be a very 
>nice thing to have, as for many of us, GDAL is 
>the only way to input data into our processing 
>chains. Unfortunately, I have little or no 
>experience of doing this sort of thing, and 
>maybe it's so difficult that it is unfeasible. I 
>just thought I'd mention it to see if someone 
>suggests an easy and convenient way to have both 
>up to date numpy, scipy (and friends) working 
>together with the latest and greatest GDAL 
>(specifically on Win32, in Linux compilation is straightforward and easy).
>
>Cheers,
>Jose
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