Did GDAL 2.0 change how Python creates ESRI Shapefiles?

Question

The migration guide for GDAL 2.0 says:

C++ API:

• OGRSFDriverRegistrar and OGRSFDriver are now deprecated. Use GDALDriverManager and GDALDriver instead.

I have only ever used GDAL Python bindings, so I'm not sure how or if this affects any code I write. I used to create ESRI Shapefiles like this:

driver = ogr.GetDriverByName('ESRI Shapefile')

Is this related to an OGRSFDriver? I tried to do

driver = gdal.GetDriverByName('ESRI Shapefile')

Which returns a driver but does not have any CreateDataSource binding in it.

Is it correct to continue to use the ogr.GetDriverByName('ESRI Shapefile') convention for GDAL 2.0+? If not, what should I use?

Answer 1

GDAL and OGR are still separate packages after the migration so it is standard to use ogr.GetDriverByName() when creating/opening vector data.