Add ShpWriter and ShxWriter. Reduce clutter from tests, by using temp dirs for writing shapefiles.

.github/workflows/run_checks_build_and_test.yml

@@ -57,18 +57,18 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         python-version: [
-          "3.9",
-          "3.10",
-          "3.11",
-          "3.12",
-          "3.13",
           "3.14",
+          "3.13",
+          "3.12",
           "3.15-dev",
+          "3.11",
+          "3.10",
+          "3.9",
         ]
         os: [
-          "macos-latest",
           "ubuntu-24.04",
           "windows-latest",
+          "macos-latest",
         ]
 
 

README.md

@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ Finally, you can use all of the above methods to read shapefiles directly from t
 
 
 	>>> # from a zipped shapefile on website
-	>>> sf = shapefile.Reader("https://github.com/JamesParrott/PyShp_test_shapefile/raw/main/gis_osm_natural_a_free_1.zip")
+	>>> sf = shapefile.Reader("https://geodata.ucdavis.edu/gadm/gadm4.1/shp/gadm41_ATA_shp.zip")
 
 	>>> # from a shapefile collection of files in a github repository
 	>>> sf = shapefile.Reader("https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-006/gisdata/coverage/airports.shp")
@@ -940,6 +940,7 @@ length of text values to save space:
 
 	>>> r = shapefile.Reader('shapefiles/test/dtype')
 	>>> assert r.record(0) == ['Hello', 'World', 'World'*50]
+	>>> r.close()
 
 Date fields are created using the 'D' type, and can be created using either
 date objects, lists, or a YYYYMMDD formatted string.
@@ -964,6 +965,7 @@ Field length or decimal have no impact on this type:
 	>>> assert r.record(1) == [date(1998,1,30)]
 	>>> assert r.record(2) == [date(1998,1,30)]
 	>>> assert r.record(3) == [None]
+	>>> r.close()
 
 Numeric fields are created using the 'N' type (or the 'F' type, which is exactly the same).
 By default the fourth decimal argument is set to zero, essentially creating an integer field.
@@ -989,6 +991,7 @@ To store very large numbers you must increase the field length size to the total
 	>>> r = shapefile.Reader('shapefiles/test/dtype')
 	>>> assert r.record(0) == [1, 1.32, 1.3217328, -3.2302e-25, 1.3217328, 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000]
 	>>> assert r.record(1) == [None, None, None, None, None, None]
+	>>> r.close()
 
 
 Finally, we can create boolean fields by setting the type to 'L'.
@@ -1025,6 +1028,7 @@ None is interpreted as missing.
 	Record #4: [None]
 	>>> r.record(5)
 	Record #5: [None]
+	>>> r.close()
 
 You can also add attributes using keyword arguments where the keys are field names.
 
@@ -1150,6 +1154,7 @@ This can be particularly useful for copying from one file to another:
 	...     w.record(*shaperec.record)
 	...     w.shape(shaperec.shape.__geo_interface__)
 
+	>>> r.close()
 	>>> w.close()
 
 
@@ -1256,7 +1261,7 @@ For reading shapefiles in any non-utf8 encoding, such as Latin-1, just
 supply the encoding option when creating the Reader class.
 
 
-	>>> r = shapefile.Reader("shapefiles/test/latin1.shp", encoding="latin1")
+	>>> r = shapefile.Reader("shapefiles/latin1.shp", encoding="latin1")
 	>>> r.record(0) == [2, u'Ñandú']
 	True
 
@@ -1269,21 +1274,24 @@ should give you the same unicode string you started with.
 	>>> w.fields = r.fields[1:]
 	>>> w.record(*r.record(0))
 	>>> w.null()
+	>>> r.close()
 	>>> w.close()
 
 	>>> r = shapefile.Reader("shapefiles/test/latin_as_utf8.shp", encoding="utf8")
 	>>> r.record(0) == [2, u'Ñandú']
 	True
+	>>> r.close()
 
 If you supply the wrong encoding and the string is unable to be decoded, PyShp will by default raise an
 exception. If however, on rare occasion, you are unable to find the correct encoding and want to ignore
 or replace encoding errors, you can specify the "encodingErrors" to be used by the decode method. This
 applies to both reading and writing.
 
 
-	>>> r = shapefile.Reader("shapefiles/test/latin1.shp", encoding="ascii", encodingErrors="replace")
+	>>> r = shapefile.Reader("shapefiles/latin1.shp", encoding="ascii", encodingErrors="replace")
 	>>> r.record(0) == [2, u'�and�']
 	True
+	>>> r.close()
 
 
 
@@ -1297,7 +1305,7 @@ of records and complex geometries.
 As an example, let's load this Natural Earth shapefile of more than 4000 global administrative boundary polygons:
 
 
-	>>> sf = shapefile.Reader("https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/blob/master/10m_cultural/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces?raw=true")
+	>>> sf = shapefile.Reader("https://archive.org/download/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.zip")
 
 When first creating the Reader class, the library only reads the header information
 and leaves the rest of the file contents alone. Once you call the records() and shapes()
@@ -1491,6 +1499,8 @@ Shapefiles containing M-values can be examined in several ways:
 	>>> r.shape(0).m # flat list of M-values
 	[0.0, None, 3.0, None, 0.0, None, None]
 
+	>>> r.close()
+
 
 ### Shapefiles with elevation (Z) values
 
@@ -1524,6 +1534,8 @@ To examine a Z-type shapefile you can do:
 	>>> r.shape(0).z # flat list of Z-values
 	[18.0, 20.0, 22.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 15.0, 13.0, 14.0]
 
+	>>> r.close()
+
 ### 3D MultiPatch Shapefiles
 
 Multipatch shapes are useful for storing composite 3-Dimensional objects.
@@ -1583,8 +1595,6 @@ installed) from the test file:
 python test_shapefile.py
 ```
 
-Linux/Mac and similar platforms may need to run `$ dos2unix README.md` in order
-to correct line endings in README.md, if Git has not automatically changed them.
 
 ## Network tests
 
@@ -1598,7 +1608,7 @@ pytest -m "not network"
 ```
 or the doctests via:
 ```shell
-python shapefile.py -m "not network"
+python test_shapefile.py -m "not network"
 ```
 or ii) by cloning a repo of the files they download, serving these on localhost in a separate process,
 and running the network tests with the environment variable REPLACE_REMOTE_URLS_WITH_LOCALHOST to `yes`:
@@ -1614,7 +1624,7 @@ REPLACE_REMOTE_URLS_WITH_LOCALHOST=yes && pytest
 ```
 or the doctests via:
 ```bash
-REPLACE_REMOTE_URLS_WITH_LOCALHOST=yes && python shapefile.py
+REPLACE_REMOTE_URLS_WITH_LOCALHOST=yes && python test_shapefile.py
 ```
 The network tests alone can also be run (without also running all the tests that don't
 make network requests) using: `pytest -m network` (or the doctests using: `python shapefile.py -m network`).

run_benchmarks.py

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 
 
 blockgroups_file = REPO_ROOT / "shapefiles" / "blockgroups.shp"
-edit_file = REPO_ROOT / "shapefiles" / "test" / "edit.shp"
-merge_file = REPO_ROOT / "shapefiles" / "test" / "merge.shp"
+edit_file = REPO_ROOT / "shapefiles" / "edit.shp"
+merge_file = REPO_ROOT / "shapefiles" / "merge.shp"
 states_provinces_file = PYSHP_TEST_REPO / "ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.shp"
 tiny_countries_file = PYSHP_TEST_REPO / "ne_110m_admin_0_tiny_countries.shp"
 gis_osm_natural_file = PYSHP_TEST_REPO / "gis_osm_natural_a_free_1.zip"