Writing POINTZ does not work correctly about pyshp

[karimbahgat]

Not sure which part of 1.2.11 caused this change, but the fact that it worked in older versions was probably more of an error/oversight. The code you showed defines the shapefile as POINTZ, but in the point() method it also needed to set the shapeType to POINTZ (the default is POINT). The fact that you specified a z-value didn't change the shapeType (it probably should have). Thus when it saved the file it only wrote the xy values, and hence no z-value when you read it back in. I think version 1.2.3 did not notice when you wrote a shapeType that did not match with the shapefile, but now it raises an exception.

Nevertheless, since it's easy to forget setting the shapeType argument, as of 0c18209 there is a designated method for each shape type, so there is no longer the need for a separate shapeType argument. So in your case, you would simply change outShp.point(10, 10, 10) to outShp.pointz(10, 10, 10).

[domlysz]

Thank you for the feeback