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pyshapelib 0.3 (2004-05-17)
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 * New module shptree.  It's a simple wrapper for shapelib's quadtree.

 * Provide a way to access the shapelib module and shapefile objects
   from C.  It's not documented, unfortunately, but pyshapelib_api.h may
   be a starting point.  This feature is used in Thuban which could be
   used as an example.

 * distutils based build and install script, setup.py

Module dbflib:

 * dbf objects now have a method commit if compiled with shapelib newer
   than 1.2.10 (that is only the CVS version of shapelib at the time of
   writing).  This method calls the new function dbflib DBFUpdateHeader.

 * New method read_attribute which reads a single attribute instead of a
   whole record like read_record

 * NULL values are now returned as None.  DBF files don't really support
   NULL, but this change matches a new feature in shapelib 1.2.9.  It's
   not clear whether it should be implemented in the python wrapper in
   this way.  It might be better to make it optional.


pyshapelib 0.2 (2001-06-15)
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Module shapelib:

 * new module level functions type_name and part_type_name
   (corresponding to SHPTypeName and SHPPartTypeName)

 * The vertices() method of shape objects works for shape type
   SHPT_POINT, too.


pyshapelib 0.1 (2000-12-20)
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Initial public release
1	pyshapelib 0.3 (2004-05-17)
2	===========================
3
4	* New module shptree. It's a simple wrapper for shapelib's quadtree.
5
6	* Provide a way to access the shapelib module and shapefile objects
7	from C. It's not documented, unfortunately, but pyshapelib_api.h may
8	be a starting point. This feature is used in Thuban which could be
9	used as an example.
10
11	* distutils based build and install script, setup.py
12
13	Module dbflib:
14
15	* dbf objects now have a method commit if compiled with shapelib newer
16	than 1.2.10 (that is only the CVS version of shapelib at the time of
17	writing). This method calls the new function dbflib DBFUpdateHeader.
18
19	* New method read_attribute which reads a single attribute instead of a
20	whole record like read_record
21
22	* NULL values are now returned as None. DBF files don't really support
23	NULL, but this change matches a new feature in shapelib 1.2.9. It's
24	not clear whether it should be implemented in the python wrapper in
25	this way. It might be better to make it optional.
26
27
28	pyshapelib 0.2 (2001-06-15)
29	===========================
30
31	Module shapelib:
32
33	* new module level functions type_name and part_type_name
34	(corresponding to SHPTypeName and SHPPartTypeName)
35
36	* The vertices() method of shape objects works for shape type
37	SHPT_POINT, too.
38
39
40	pyshapelib 0.1 (2000-12-20)
41	===========================
42
43	Initial public release
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