Thanks for the effbot pointer Markus. I've been thinking for ahwile now
sort of regedit batch file trickery. Now there is a much cleaner route :)
> Hej,
>
>
> Aleksey Naumov-2 wrote:
> > My problem is being able to do scripting with GDAL using Python 2.5
> > (this version is important because of integration/compatibility
> > with a number of other packages, mainly IPython), and I need to be
> > able to do it on Windows. I attempted a few approaches, but could
> > not figure out how to get all the pieces to work together:
> >
>
> first things first: It is definitely possible to use the GDAL Python
> 1.6 bindings on Python 2.5 under Windows, cause
>
http://www.box.net/shared/pp82vkdp8j that's what I'm running over
> here as well. Now I can't give a detailed installation instruction
> as it was a piecewise work, but following is what I can recall: 1)
> I'm using the installer from OSGeo4W to setup my geospatial toolbox.
> Using the advanced installation process the packages I'm considering
> important are python, gdal (or gdal16), gdal-python (or
> gdal16-python), python-numpy and python-win32. The latter two I'm not
> sure how essential they really are, I have them installed in any way.
> 2) To use version 1.6 of GDAL it is necessary to a) install the
> corresponding packages (see above) and b) switch to the 1.6
> environment using gdal16.bat under osgeo4w\bin\gdal16.bat. However
> this works for the OSGeo4W shell only and is not applied system-wide.
> See
>
http://n2.nabble.com/Python-1-6-bindings-under-Windows-td3337254.html> my conversation with the list on this matter a few weeks ago. I've
> adjusted the %PYTHONPATH% to
> *C:\OSGeo4W\apps\gdal-16\pymod;C:\OSGeo4W\apps\Python25\Lib* on my
> system to use gdal16 system-wide. 3) A minor thing. When importing
> the bindings I use *from osgeo import gdal* instead of *import gdal*.
> However that does not seem to be your problem as the latter
> alternative should give you a deprecation warning but not refuse to
> work altogether. 4) The Python version of OSGeo4W is the default one
> on my system. It works fine, I only had a few problems when
> installing third-party extensions that need correct registry settings
> for the installation. Have a look a
>
http://effbot.org/zone/python-register.htm this script (and
> especially the last comment) on how to fix this problem. That's all
> what I can think of now. Maybe there's something you can look at to
> find a solution for your problems. Regards, Markus
>
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