shapely.is_valid_input

is_valid_input(geometry, **kwargs)

Returns True if the object is a geometry or None

Parameters:

geometryany object or array_like

**kwargs

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

See also

is_geometry

checks if an object is a geometry

is_missing

checks if an object is None

Examples

>>> from shapely import GeometryCollection, Point
>>> is_valid_input(Point(0, 0))
True
>>> is_valid_input(GeometryCollection())
True
>>> is_valid_input(None)
True
>>> is_valid_input(1.0)
False
>>> is_valid_input("text")
False