shapely.from_wkb

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shapely.from_wkb#

from_wkb(geometry, on_invalid='raise', **kwargs)#

Creates geometries from the Well-Known Binary (WKB) representation.

The Well-Known Binary format is defined in the OGC Simple Features Specification for SQL.

Parameters:
geometrystr or array_like

The WKB byte object(s) to convert.

on_invalid{“raise”, “warn”, “ignore”}, default “raise”

  • raise: an exception will be raised if a WKB input geometry is invalid.

  • warn: a warning will be raised and invalid WKB geometries will be returned as None.

  • ignore: invalid WKB geometries will be returned as None without a warning.

**kwargs

See NumPy ufunc docs for other keyword arguments.

Examples

>>> from_wkb(b'\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf0?\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xf0?')
<POINT (1 1)>
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