mappyfile

A pure Python MapFile parser for working with MapServer, built using plyplus and PLY

Requirements

Python 2.7 or Python 3.x

Installation

mappyfile is available on PyPI (Python Package Index), and can be installed using pip:

pip install mappyfile

This will also install its required dependencies plyplus and PLY.

Documentation

Documentation at http://mappyfile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Usage

import mappyfile

mapfile = mappyfile.load("./docs/examples/raster.map")

# update the map name
mapfile["name"] = "MyNewMap"

new_layer_string = """
LAYER
    NAME 'land'
    TYPE POLYGON
    DATA '../data/vector/naturalearth/ne_110m_land'
    CLASS
        STYLE
            COLOR 107 208 107
            OUTLINECOLOR 2 2 2
            WIDTH 1
        END
    END
END
"""

new_layer = mappyfile.loads(new_layer_string)
layers.insert(0, new_layer) # can insert the new layer at any index

print(mappyfile.dumps(mapfile))

Authors

Seth Girvin @geographika
Erez Shinan @erezsh

Release files for mappyfile 0.1.1

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