[FWTools] RE: FWTools Digest, Vol 46, Issue 8

Thu Aug 14 12:46:24 EDT 2008

OK.  Thank you.  Sounds very good.
I'll just use the bindings that come with FWTOOLS.
That is preferable.

Sorry to have the dunce cap on,
but I can't seem to figure out how to use the FWTOOLS Python bindings.
Could you point me to a doc that has a recipe for using them?

If I write import ogr or import osgeo into a python script,
I get an error if I don't copy gdal15.dll and geos_c_fw.dll 
from C:\gdalwin32-1.5\bin to c:\program files\fwtools2.1.0\bin
or put C:\gdalwin32-1.5\bin in the path.

Best regards,
-Vince

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>    1. RE: Using Python bindings with latest version of FWTOOLS	-
>       And Clip Vector Data (Vince Ulfig)
>    2. Re: RE: Using Python bindings with latest version of	FWTOOLS
>       - And Clip Vector Data (Frank Warmerdam)
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> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:34:54 -0700
> From: "Vince Ulfig" <vulfig at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [FWTools] RE: Using Python bindings with latest version of
> 	FWTOOLS	- And Clip Vector Data
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> > Hi Frank,
> > 
> > I recently started using the GDAL / OGR utilities from FWTools and love
> > them.  
> Thank you.
> 
> > I installed the python bindings for GDAL from this page:
> > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL
> > 
> > I found that I had to install gdalwin32-1.5 in addition to FWTools and add
> > C:\gdalwin32-1.5\bin to the path variable,
> > in order to get the python bindings to work.
> > I ran some code that attempts to import ogr
> > and use some of the objects,
> > and found that I could not import ogr
> > until I added the path described above.
> > 
> > I then found that the only files in 
> > C:\gdalwin32-1.5\bin 
> > that were not included in
> > c:\program files\fwtools2.1.0\bin
> > were gdal15.dll and geos_c_fw.dll.
> > When I copied these files to
> > c:\program files\fwtools2.1.0\bin
> > and removed C:\gdalwin32-1.5\bin 
> > from the path variable, I could still import ogr.
> > 
> > Is this a reasonable method for using the python bindings for gdal?
> > Is it better to install both FWTOOLS and gdalwin32-1.5?
> > 
> > When I had both in the path,
> > I put gdalwin32-1.5/bin in the path in front of FWTOOLS.
> > Does this make sense?
> > 
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> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:22:30 -0400
> From: "Frank Warmerdam" <warmerdam at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: [FWTools] RE: Using Python bindings with latest version
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> Vince,
> 
> FWTools already includes python bindings which you could use.  If you
> want to use the pypi bindings then they depend on the standard GDAL
> binaries which you have found.  It is possible to mix these standard
> DLLs into FWTools but there is some risk of conflicts.  I would generally
> suggest you keep them separate.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Vince Ulfig <vulfig at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> > I recently started using the GDAL / OGR utilities from FWTools and love
> > them.
> > Thank you.
> >
> > I installed the python bindings for GDAL from this page:
> > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL
> >
> > I found that I had to install gdalwin32-1.5 in addition to FWTools and add
> > C:\gdalwin32-1.5\bin to the path variable,
> > in order to get the python bindings to work.
> > I ran some code that attempts to import ogr
> > and use some of the objects,
> > and found that I could not import ogr
> > until I added the path described above.
> >
> > I then found that the only files in
> > C:\gdalwin32-1.5\bin
> > that were not included in
> > c:\program files\fwtools2.1.0\bin
> > were gdal15.dll and geos_c_fw.dll.
> > When I copied these files to
> > c:\program files\fwtools2.1.0\bin
> > and removed C:\gdalwin32-1.5\bin
> > from the path variable, I could still import ogr.
> >
> > Is this a reasonable method for using the python bindings for gdal?
> > Is it better to install both FWTOOLS and gdalwin32-1.5?
> >
> > When I had both in the path,
> > I put gdalwin32-1.5/bin in the path in front of FWTOOLS.
> > Does this make sense?
> >
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