geopandas.GeoSeries.from_file#
- classmethod GeoSeries.from_file(filename, **kwargs)[source]#
Alternate constructor to create a
GeoSeries
from a file.Can load a
GeoSeries
from a file from any format recognized by pyogrio. See http://pyogrio.readthedocs.io/ for details. From a file with attributes loads only geometry column. Note that to do that, GeoPandas first loads the whole GeoDataFrame.- Parameters:
- filenamestr
File path or file handle to read from. Depending on which kwargs are included, the content of filename may vary. See
pyogrio.read_dataframe()
for usage details.- kwargskey-word arguments
These arguments are passed to
pyogrio.read_dataframe()
, and can be used to access multi-layer data, data stored within archives (zip files), etc.
See also
read_file
read file to GeoDataFrame
Examples
>>> import geodatasets >>> path = geodatasets.get_path('nybb') >>> s = geopandas.GeoSeries.from_file(path) >>> s 0 MULTIPOLYGON (((970217.022 145643.332, 970227.... 1 MULTIPOLYGON (((1029606.077 156073.814, 102957... 2 MULTIPOLYGON (((1021176.479 151374.797, 102100... 3 MULTIPOLYGON (((981219.056 188655.316, 980940.... 4 MULTIPOLYGON (((1012821.806 229228.265, 101278... Name: geometry, dtype: geometry