Re: [gdal-dev] Create new fields in existing shapefile with Python

2010-04-29 Thread Chaitanya kumar CH
Alexander, This has been fixed in http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3247 Use the latest version 1.7 overcome this issue. It was not incorporated in 1.6 branch. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Alexander Bruy wrote: > Hi all, > > when writing a script in Python for processing shapefiles I found

[gdal-dev] Create new fields in existing shapefile with Python

2010-04-29 Thread Alexander Bruy
Hi all, when writing a script in Python for processing shapefiles I found that I can add to the shapefile new fields with the same name many times without any error or warning. But AFAIK all fields in shapefile must have unique field names. Is this a bug and I need to post a ticket? Or maybe I do