On Jul 20, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Python Gis wrote:
> 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 = OpenLayer('output', 'myshapefile')
> print 'Name from main: %s' % layer.GetName()
>
> and this is the output:
>
> $ python testogr.py
> Name from method: firenews
> Segmentation fault
>
> what can it be?
> thanks a lot
>
drv_shp and shp_ds are going out of scope. Use ogr.Open, which will take care
of all of this for you.
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