[Gdal-dev] easy ogr question...

[Will Cadell]

hi guys... am i just stupid or is there another way to add a field to a
shapefile other than:
   
    ds = ogr.open("c:\shapefile.shp", True)
   
    new_field = ogr.FieldDefn()
    new_field.SetName(new_field_name)
    new_field.SetType(new_field_type)
    new_field.SetWidth(new_field_width)
   
    layer = ds.GetLayer(0)
    layer.CreateField(new_field)
   
    ds.destroy

because this doesn't work for me...

please help, Will

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