* Wed Mar 06 2019 Todd R <toddrme2178@gmail.com>
- Update to version 2.1.0
+ New Features:
* Added back read/write support for unicode field names.
* Improved Record representation
* More support for geojson on Reader, ShapeRecord, ShapeRecords, and shapes()
+ Bug fixes:
* Fixed error when reading optional m-values
* Fixed Record attribute autocomplete in Python 3
* Misc readme cleanup
- Update to version 2.0.1
+ Fix pip install setup.py README decoding error.
- Update to version 2.0.0
+ New Features:
* Full support for unicode text, with custom encoding, and exception handling.
> Means that the Reader returns unicode, and the Writer accepts unicode.
* PyShp has been simplified to a pure input-output library using the Reader and Writer classes, dropping the Editor class.
* Switched to a new streaming approach when writing files, keeping memory-usage at a minimum:
> Specify filepath/destination and text encoding when creating the Writer.
> The file is written incrementally with each call to shape/record.
> Adding shapes is now done using dedicated methods for each shapetype.
* Reading shapefiles is now more convenient:
> Shapefiles can be opened using the context manager, and files are properly closed.
> Shapefiles can be iterated, have a length, and supports the geo interface.
> New ways of inspecing shapefile metadata by printing. [@megies]
> More convenient accessing of Record values as attributes. [@philippkraft]
> More convenient shape type name checking. [@megies]
* Add more support and documentation for MultiPatch 3D shapes.
* The Reader "elevation" and "measure" attributes now renamed "zbox" and "mbox", to make it clear they refer to the min/max values.
* Better documentation of previously unclear aspects, such as field types.
+ Bug Fixes:
* More reliable/robust:
> Fixed shapefile bbox error for empty or point type shapefiles. [@mcuprjak]
> Reading and writing Z and M type shapes is now more robust, fixing many errors, and has been added to the documentation. [@ShinNoNoir]
> Improved parsing of field value types, fixed errors and made more flexible.
> Fixed bug when writing shapefiles with datefield and date values earlier than 1900 [@megies]
* Fix some geo interface errors, including checking polygon directions.
* Bug fixes for reading from case sensitive file names, individual files separately, and from file-like objects. [@gastoneb, @kb003308, @erickskb]
* Enforce maximum field limit. [@mwtoews]
- Update to version 1.2.11
* Fixed bugs when reading and writing empty shapefiles.
* Fixed bug when writing null geometry.
* Fixed misc data type errors.
* Fixed error when reading files with wrong record length.
* Use max field precision when saving decimal numbers.
* Improved shapetype detection.
* Expanded docs on data types.
* General doc additions and travis icon.
- Update to version 1.2.10
* Bump version to fix pip install issue.
- Update to version 1.2.8
* Configured Travis-CI
- Update to version 1.2.5
* Reader speed up through batch unpacking bytes
* Merge README text into markdown file. Remove text version.
* Fixed parsing of number of points for some shapes (MULTIPOINTM, MULTIPOINTZ)
- Update to version 1.2.3
* shapefile.py (u) Bugfix for Python3 with Reader.iterShapeRecords()
- Update to version 1.2.2
* Raise ShapefileException for runtime errors rather than using `assert()`
* Return None when parsing (illegal) NULL attribute values in numeric and date fields, like those produced by QGIS
* Update link to "XBase File Format Description"
* Added `Reader.iterShapeRecords` to help work with larger files
* Update README.txt
- Update to version 1.2.1
* shapefile.py (u) fixed bug which failed to properly read some dbf fields in Python
- Implement single-spec version