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I use QGIS and therefore also OSGeo4W.
At the moment I am writing a script that use ogr in python. I need a virtual environment for because it is going to be deployed on a server (which also has OSGeo4W). After creating a virtual env (python -m venv venv) then I cannot import ogr as I would do from the OSGeo4W shell from osgeo import ogr. I am a windows user, so is the server.

I have been reading many post about issues using/installing ogr in python but at the moment I am completely confused, I . I am not a very experienced python user, and setting up the dependencies appear to be the hardest bit yet. This post is similar to what I want to do Use OGR and GDAL in Python outside OSGEO4W shell but the link in the post to binaries include mapserver which I am not interested in. Any advice?

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    Despite the name of the directory you can install just GDAL. For example this GDAL core installer installs just GDAL core features download.gisinternals.com/sdk/downloads/…. But if you download some other package that contains also MapServer binaries then just don't run MapServer.
    – user30184
    Dec 3, 2019 at 15:35
  • I use QGIS and therefore also OSGeo4W. therefore also doesn't necessarily follow, you don't need OSGeo4W to use QGIS.
    – nmtoken
    Dec 3, 2019 at 16:50
  • That is true, I just wanted to point out that I am aware that using OSGeo4W is an option, was thinking maybe I can "reuse" ogr that come with OSGeo4W in my python env. But as far as I can tell, that is not possible.
    – geogrow
    Dec 4, 2019 at 7:37
  • @user30184 I installed the suggested download and I can now run ogr from cmd. But I can still not use it in my "regular" python or python in my created venv. Am I misunderstanding the use of it or is it still not working? I have tried import ogr and from osgeo import ogr. Giving me ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'osgeo' or ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ogr'
    – geogrow
    Dec 4, 2019 at 7:42
  • You must also install the GDAL Python bindings from the same download page. There is also a note on that page Note: In order to have the bindings work the location of the core components must be included manually in the PATH environment variable.. Unfortunately I do not know what those core components are.
    – user30184
    Dec 4, 2019 at 8:04

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