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Sometimes, usually as a server-based operation, you need to delete all of the features in a shapefile. All you want left is the shapefile...

Shapefile shx files help software locate records quickly but they are not strictly necessary. The shapefile software can manually browse...

Update 6/13/12:  We finally reverse engineered the sbn indexing algorithm to an Esri-compatible level!  Please see this post:  SBN Mystery S...

Thanks to some outstanding work by a contributor, pyshp  is now compatible with Python 2.4 to 3.x.  Before I was maintaining a separate code...

In a previous post, I wrote about saving shapefiles using pyshp to file-like objects and demonstrated how to save a shapefile to a zip fi...