Welcome to plpygis’s documentation!

plpygis is a Python conveter to and from the PostGIS geometry type, WKB, EWKB, GeoJSON and Shapely geometries and additionally supports __geo_interface__. plpygis is intended for use in PL/Python functions.

Contents:

• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Python Package Index
  • Source
• Basic usage
  • Geometry
  • Exceptions
• Geometry subclasses
  • Creation
  • Editing
  • Composition
  • SRIDs
  • Dimensionality
  • Performance considerations
• PL/Python
  • Enabling PL/Python
  • Function declarations
  • Type mappings
  • Arrays and sets
  • Shared data
  • plpy
  • Aggregate functions
• Examples
  • Conversion
  • External services
  • Rendering output
  • Spatial aggregate function
• plpygis package