Version 2.4.0. Iteration over subranges of records. Last support for Python 2 and Python 3.8

What's Changed

• Fix PyShp's CI, dropping actions/setup-python, running build.yml Action in Python Docker containers. by @JamesParrott in #267
• Add spatial filtering for single points by @lgolston in #259
• SyntaxWarning for identity checks in test_shapefile by @lgolston in #260
• Fix recursion error when copying Record with deepcopy() by @midichef in #257
• Added uppercase file extension compatibility for zip files by @bva-bme in #250
• Run on workflow_dispatch (after manual trigger) by @JamesParrott in #271
• *.py: Remove trailing empty spaces. by @schwehr in #279
• changelog.txt: strip trailing spaces and keep as dos formatted file. by @schwehr in #280
• build.yml: Allow all pushes to run the workflow. by @schwehr in #277
• build.yml: Change python-versions to leave off patch version. by @schwehr in #282
• README.md and changelog.txt: codespell by @schwehr in #283
• Initial sorting of imports. by @schwehr in #296
• Refactor workflows to support testing before deployment, and testing on Windows and MacOS. by @JamesParrott in #300
• Run Pylint
• Add ruff format hook to pre-commit config
• Combine iter records range into iter records based on work by @lguez in #310

New Contributors

• @lguez made their first contribution in #310
• @lgolston made their first contribution in #259
• @midichef made their first contribution in #257
• @bva-bme made their first contribution in #250
• @schwehr made their first contribution in #279

Full Changelog: 2.3.1...2.4.0

PyShp 2.3.1

Bug fixes:

• Fix recently introduced issue where Reader/Writer closes file-like objects provided by user (#244)

PyShp 2.3.0

New Features:

• Added support for pathlib and path-like shapefile filepaths (@mwtoews).
• Allow reading individual file extensions via filepaths.

Improvements:

• Simplified setup and deployment (@mwtoews)
• Faster shape access when missing shx file
• Switch to named logger (see #240)

Bug fixes:

• More robust handling of corrupt shapefiles (fixes #235)
• Fix errors when writing to individual file-handles (fixes #237)
• Revert previous decision to enforce geojson output ring orientation (detailed explanation at SciTools/cartopy#2012)
• Fix test issues in environments without network access (@sebastic, @musicinmybrain).

PyShp 2.2.0

New Features:

• Read shapefiles directly from zipfiles.
• Read shapefiles directly from urls.
• Allow fast extraction of only a subset of dbf fields through a fields arg.
• Allow fast filtering which shapes to read from the file through a bbox arg.

Improvements:

• More examples and restructuring of README.
• More informative Shape to geojson warnings (see #219).
• Shape object information when calling repr().
• Faster ring orientation checks, enforce geojson output ring orientation.

Bug fixes:

• Remove null-padding at end of some record character fields.
• Fix dbf writing error when the number of record list or dict entries didn't match the number of fields.
• Handle rare garbage collection issue after deepcopy (mattijn/topojson#120)
• Fix bug where records and shapes would be assigned incorrect record number (@karanrn)
• Fix typos in docs (@timgates)

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.