[gdal-dev] OSR Python: SR.ImportFromEPSG(4326), SR.ImportFromESRI(strPrj) return null values

[David Verbyla]

I am a newbie to OGR/OSR using Python 2.7.2, please excuse my ignorance:

I'm having problems creating spatial reference using either .ImportFromEPSG
or .ImportFromESRI(prjfile string).
Yet .SetWellKnownGeogCS works fine.

from osgeo import ogr
import osr,os
testSR = osr.SpatialReference()
testSR.SetWellKnownGeogCS("WGS84")
print testSR.ExportToPrettyWkt()
#returns
#GEOGCS["WGS 84",
 #   DATUM["WGS_1984",
#....and so on...

testSR.ImportFromEPSG(4326)#returns 6
print testSR.ExportToPrettyWkt() #returns zero length string

prjFile = open('c:/test/GCS_WGS84.prj')
 strPrj  = prjFile.readline() #returns string with len 145
 testSR.ImportFromESRI(strPrj)#returns 5
 print testSR.ExportToPrettyWkt() #returns zero length string
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