Accessing "GIS (ESRI shape file)" files from Python ?

[Sean Richards]

http://thuban.intevation.org/ 

I have not used this but it purports to be able to read ESRI shapefiles
and is written in Python + wxPython. If you are not totally dogmatic
about using Python then you could just download ESRI's arcexplorer which
seemed pretty useful when I used it several years ago

Sean

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