Can not resolve the error: Incomplete shapefile definition in 'filename.shp'

Question

I'm trying to add a feature to draw a map but this error: "Incomplete shapefile definition in 'eez v11.shp'" keeps popping. Here is the code I wrote:

fname = 'eez_v11.shp'
shape_feature = ShapelyFeature(Reader(fname).geometries(),
                                ccrs.PlateCarree(), edgecolor='k',facecolor='gray')
ax.add_feature(shape_feature)

Do you know how I can solve this issue?

Answer 1

In Source code for cartopy.io.shapereader

if reader.shp is None or reader.shx is None or reader.dbf is None:
   raise ValueError("Incomplete shapefile definition "
                    "in '%s'." % filename)

So one of these files is missing