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@atlefren atlefren commented Aug 7, 2014

For shapefiles with values that cannot be cast to float or int in the attributes the lib dies with a ValueError. I think it's cleaner to then set the value to None. This is consistent with how QGIS handles these shapefiles and should not cause much trouble.

If this causes trouble it's possible to add a flag to either die on error or set to None.

@atlefren atlefren changed the title handle wrong values in attrubutes Handle non-parseable values in attributes Aug 7, 2014
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Just now getting to this. I need to think about it some more. On the one hand, I love it when things just work and a library doesn't bother me with minutia. But on the other hand, I could also see this change driving somebody nuts trying to figure out why a value is returned as None. The comprise might be the flag you mentioned for "strict" handling or similar. Definitely worth more discussion.

GeospatialPython added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 8, 2016
Handle non-parseable values in attributes
@GeospatialPython GeospatialPython merged commit c593c15 into GeospatialPython:master Feb 8, 2016
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