[gdal-dev] generate shapefile from program

[Wendell Turner]

Can someone point me to a python program that will generate
a shapefile from scratch?

Given an extent, projection, and set of lat/lng to place
some markers or images, I would like a python (or c or c++)
program to generate a shapefile for an overlay with
mapserver/openlayers.  I think ogr may be able to do this,
and saw many examples of how to change existing shapefiles,
but not to generate one from scratch.

Mapnik gave the impression that it could do it, but was
fairly difficult to compile.

Thanks,

Wendell