Geometry package

[Max Erickson]

Justin Pearson <justin.pearson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking for a geometry package in Python; something that will
> let me define line segments, and can tell me if two line segments
> intersect. It would be nice if the lines could be defined in
> n-space (rather than be confined to 2 or 3 dimensions), but this
> is not a hard constraint. Other functionality might include
> support for polygons, convex hulls, etc.
> 
> I've searched Pypi and found a package called Shapely, but when I
> followed its installation instructions, it threw a bunch of
> errors and tried to re-install Python :(.
> 
> Is there a well-known geometry package I'm missing?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Justin
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I don't know if it is well known, but you could take a look at 
Euclid:

http://partiallydisassembled.net/euclid.html

The geometry support is pretty basic.


max