[Tutor] 'function' object has no attribute 'writer'

[Peter Otten]

Susana Iraiis Delgado Rodriguez wrote:

Susana, please use 4-space indents for your code samples. I've said it 
before, but I think it's worthwhile repeating because it makes it much 
easier to grasp the structure of a script at first sight.

> But now I get a differente error, this script is going to collect
> information from shapefiles, I asked the user where to start the search,
> the file extension, and the csv name. Now I get:
>>>> import win
>>>> Seleccione directorio donde empezar
> You chose C:/
> Escribe la extension que necesitas buscar
> Buscando archivos:  .shp
> Nombre del csv a crear
> Archivo de salidad:  gui.csv
> Iniciando...
> Exception in Tkinter callback
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python26\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1410, in __call__
>     return self.func(*args)
>   File "win.py", line 65, in boton4
>     shapeData = ogr.Open(filepath)
>   File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\osgeo\ogr.py", line 4033, in Open
>     return _ogr.Open(*args, **kwargs)
> TypeError: in method 'Open', argument 1 of type 'char const *'
> 
> The other part of the code is:

> from osgeo import ogr,gdal,osr

>   shapeData = ogr.Open(filepath)

filepath is a unicode string, your library seems to expect byte strings.
Try converting it like so:

import sys
filesystemencoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
#...
shapeData = ogr.Open(filepath.encode(filesystemencoding))