shapely.prepare

prepare(geometry, **kwargs)

Prepare a geometry, improving performance of other operations.

A prepared geometry is a normal geometry with added information such as an index on the line segments. This improves the performance of the following operations: contains, contains_properly, covered_by, covers, crosses, disjoint, intersects, overlaps, touches, and within.

Note that if a prepared geometry is modified, the newly created Geometry object is not prepared. In that case, prepare should be called again.

This function does not recompute previously prepared geometries; it is efficient to call this function on an array that partially contains prepared geometries.

Parameters

geometryGeometry or array_like

Geometries are changed inplace

**kwargs

For other keyword-only arguments, see the NumPy ufunc docs.

See also

is_prepared

Identify whether a geometry is prepared already.

destroy_prepared

Destroy the prepared part of a geometry.