artemp/trac2github — Issue #172: Make datasource info available as python objects
Author: artemp
Created: 2011-10-09 20:18:16+00:00
State: open
Labels: Boost_Python_Binding

To avoid this kind of monkeypatching to parse the string returned from lyr.describe():

http://mapnik-utils.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/nikinfo/nikinfo.py

a more pythonic interface to be exposed to a layers datasource.