[Qgis-developer] GDAL Python Bindings

[Christopher Barker]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> One thing I would acknowledge is that you can't currently implement a
> raster format for GDAL in Python.  I'm not sure how useful it would be
> to be able to do so,

I think it would be very useful.

To go along with Frank's impassioned plea:

Being able to drive and customize QGIS with Python is the final straw 
for me -- it is clearly becoming THE way to go for custom desktop GIS apps.

Being a python fanatic, I'd like to be able to do everything in python, 
including things like writing a new raster driver. With numpy and a 
clean connection between gdal and numpy, it could even be done efficiently.

Yes, there are issues/limitations with GDAL's python wrappers, but they 
are solid an useful and the GDAL team is very open to improving them -- 
let's pool our efforts, not split them.

-Chris


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