Thanks Luke
this is exactly the approach I have used, solving the issue
To me looks strange that a layer can't exist without the datasource in the
scope, with other GIS API is not so.
But anyway, good to know
best regards
- Original Message
From: "Pinner, Luke"
To:
> drv_shp and shp_ds are going out of scope. Use
> ogr.Open, which will take care of all of this for you.
>
Thanks Howard
I am using now ogr.Open but there is still the same problem. Looks like I need
to reopen the layer in each method, as far as it seems it cannot exist the
layer without its
Hi
this is my code:
from osgeo import ogr
def OpenLayer(shape_path, shape_name):
drv_shp = ogr.GetDriverByName('ESRI Shapefile')
shp_ds = drv_shp.Open(shape_path, 1)
layer = shp_ds.GetLayerByName(shape_name)
print 'Name from method: %s' % layer.GetName()
return layer;
layer =
