[FWTools] Gdal and ecw [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Frank Warmerdam]

Laurence-Rogers, Ben wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Newbie question - I want to be able to write a python script to read the 
> header information from ecw files.  I have downloaded the ecw sdk but 
> don't know what to do next - the format help says you need to link the 
> libraries, does that mean compiling gdal from scratch?

Ben,

The FWTools binaries include support for ECW.  You should be able to write
a python script using FWTools without ECW related problems (I hope).

A very minimal example script to get you started would be:

import gdal

ds = gdal.Open( 'wrk.ecw' )
gt = ds.GetGeoTransform()
print 'GeoTransform = ', gt
ds = None


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