Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Gagan wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>  
>> I was looking for Python API or code module to read and manipulate
>> ESRIs DBF files.
>> Any suggestion will be good...
> 
> Gagan,
> 
> You can accomplish this with the GDAL/OGR Python bindings:
> 
>   http://www.gdal.org
> 
> There are also direct python bindings available for Shapelib (look
> down for "python"):
> 
>   http://shapelib.maptools.org/
> 
> Lastly there is the most Pythonic options from:
> 
>   http://gispython.org/
> 
> I believe PCL reads and writes shapefiles.

Ack. PCL is overkill for this.

> 
> The shapelib bindings are likely the "lightest" option if that is a
> concern.  The GDAL/OGR option is available in FWTools builds
> (http://fwtools.maptools.org) though that is built for a particular (old)
> version of Python.
> 
> Best regards,

There's also http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dbfpy/2.2.0, which looks like a
nice mature package for reading and writing simple DBFs.

Sean

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