[pdal] Python API

[lefsky at gmail.com]

Do you anticipate maintaining the API?  (duplicate of github ticker)

Also, I'm a geographer, not a programmer. Is there a way to extract the
information on function and keyword names from the source code?

Thanks Michael

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

> As Paul says, there isn't a comprehensive one. The API surface is quite
> small, and if you ask your favorite LLM, you're likely to get something
> that's quite reasonable.
>
> The best examples of specific things are in the tests.
>
> On Apr 13, 2026, at 10:05 AM, Paul Harwood via pdal <pdal at lists.osgeo.org>
> wrote:
>
> The main and, as far as I know, only reference is the GitHub readme
> https://github.com/PDAL/python.
>
> Paul
>
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2026, 15:43 lefsky--- via pdal, <pdal at lists.osgeo.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to use the Python API for my work with pdal, but I haven't found
>> a comprehensive reference for it. Can anyone point me in the correct
>> direction?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
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*“for being prematurely, and worse, intuitively right — there’s a heavy
price. But for being wrong — no, not so long as you’re wrong in a pack."
Gary Brecher / Portis*

*I acknowledge that I live and work on stolen land. This is the land of the
Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute, and Ocheithi Sakowin people. To learn more about
these nations, please visit;
http://www.utemountainutetribe.com/
http://www.cheyennenation.com/
https://cheyenneandarapaho-nsn.gov/
https://native-land.ca/
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