PyShp 2.1.3

Bug fixes:

• Fix recent bug in geojson hole-in-polygon checking (see #205)
• Misc fixes to allow geo interface dump to json (eg dates as strings)
• Handle additional dbf date null values, and return faulty dates as unicode (see #187)
• Add writer target typecheck
• Fix bugs to allow reading shp/shx/dbf separately
• Allow delayed shapefile loading by passing no args
• Fix error with writing empty z/m shapefile (@mcuprjak)
• Fix signed_area() so ignores z/m coords
• Enforce writing the 11th field name character as null-terminator (only first 10 are used)
• Minor README fixes
• Added more tests

PyShp 2.1.2

Bug fixes:

• Fix issue where warnings.simplefilter('always') changes global warning behavior [see #203]

PyShp 2.1.1

Improvements:

• Handle shapes with no coords and represent as geojson with no coords (GeoJSON null-equivalent)
• Expand testing to Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and PyPy; drop 3.3 and 3.4
• Added pytest testing

Bug fixes:

• Fix incorrect geo interface handling of multipolygons with complex exterior-hole relations
• Enforce shapefile requirement of at least one field, to avoid writing invalid shapefiles
• Fix Reader geo interface including DeletionFlag field in feature properties
• Fix polygons not being auto closed, which was accidentally dropped
• Fix error for null geometries in feature geojson
• Misc docstring cleanup

PyShp 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

PyShp 2.0.1

Fix pip install setup.py README decoding error.

PyShp 2.0.0

Major new version. See README or changelog.txt.

PyShp 1.2.12

• Fixed errors caused by strict value type checking, as introduced in v1.2.11. Now more lenient by attempting force conversion of values to match the field type.
• Allow reading file-like objects without seek method (such as ZipFile or urllib.urlopen).

Pyshp 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 ++.

Pyshp 1.2.10

Bump version to fix pip install issue.

Pyshp 1.2.9

• Revert back to fix #66
• Update changelog and version information