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How to add attributes to shapefile with Python and pyshp?

I'm using pyshp for creating a shapefile. I need to populate tens of fields with values using the record() method of shapefile.Writer. I have those values as a list, but have no idea how to send it to ...
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Updating Attributes using Pyshp

Is it possible to update an attribute field in a shapefile using pyshp ? I went through their documentation and all they show is how to create new attribute rather than editing or updating an already ...
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How to get text attributes from shapefile with python / pyshp

I have a shapefile, containing only points in XY-coordinates and a string attribute for each point. I would like to read the coordinates and the attribute for postprocessing in python, but can't get ...
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Problems converting CSV to Shapefile using pyshp

I have a python script which converts csv data to shapefiles. It converts but won't get angle from csv. Can anyone help me? The CSV data looks like this: fid_nr;x;y;angle ...
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Where do I append point values with pyshp?

I would like to generate a .shp with five points using shapefile available through pyshp. However, when I loop through my list I get only the last value. This makes sense as I did not append any of ...
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How to construct a line from points in pyshp?

I am reading a shapefile for a pipeline and what I've noticed is that if I just draw a line from one point to the next (in the order I read them), there will be points where the line terminates, and ...
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Using the python shape library: pyshp - how to convert .csv file to .shp

I am trying to understand how I can use the csv module in python to open a csv file in the same folder as the python script, and then create a shapefile using the shapefile module pyshp. The csv file ...