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Asked: 2026-05-15T08:27:36+00:00

I am trying to install GDAL for python on a Windows XP machine (Python

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I am trying to install GDAL for python on a Windows XP machine (Python 2.6 currently installed) following the instructions at http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GdalOgrInPython (as is mirrored in a hundred other places). It says I need both the GDAL source (or Windows binary) and the python bindings. The python binding are be downloaded from the python cheeseshop (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Python_GDAL/1.3.1). I don’t see a download link on this page nor can I locate the python binding elsewhere – all instruction I can find seem to point to the same cheeseshop page. This seems like I’m either missing something embarrassingly simple or the bindings file has disappeared. Any thoughts on which it is? Thanks.

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    The latest GDAL for python seems to be 1.7, (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL/1.7.1) but contrary to what is says earlier on the cheeseshop page, there”s no windows installer version. At the very bottom, there’s a tar.gz file with the code in it.

    There IS a windows installer program for version 1.6. I don’t know if that version runs with python 2.6, though. I found one source that said as of Feb. 2009, it didn’t, but a later note at ucsb.pbworks.com/Using-GDAL-with-Python indicates it does. I’ve verified it intalls fine, and I can import it per directions on that page. I haven’t done anything more yet.

    Hope this helps!

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