[gdal-dev] "New" style import

[Daniel Evans]

In 3.1 and earlier, GDAL had short helper scripts to allow the deprecated imports, named “gdal.py”, “osr.py”, and “ogr.py”, with contents like:

```
# import osgeo.gdal as a convenience
from osgeo.gdal import deprecation_warn
deprecation_warn('gdal')

from osgeo.gdal import *
```

You could create such very short modules on your local machine (presumably not bothering to include the deprecation warning!). Using PYTHONPATH to point to a directory with them in is probably the simplest way.

The source for the Python wrappers in GDAL 3.1 can be found at: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/tree/release/3.1/gdal/swig/python

(Alternatively, I’d argue it wouldn’t be too hard to do some global search and replace for “import gdal”->”from osgeo import gdal”, using your IDE or some command line tools, but I presume you’re not tempted by that idea!)

Dr Daniel Evans
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From: gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Jose Gomez-Dans
Sent: 07 April 2021 12:11
To: gdal-dev <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [gdal-dev] "New" style import

Hi,
I've recently updated GDAL to 3.2.1. I mostly use it from Python, and have oodles of scripts from the past that use "import gdal" somewhere. With the newer versions of GDAL, this is deprecated and is now "from osgeo import gdal".

Is there some hacky workaround/sacrifice to the technical debt gods to carry on using "import gdal" for legacy codes?

Thanks!
Jose
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