from django.contrib.gis.geos.geometry import GEOSGeometry, wkt_regex, hex_regex def fromfile(file_h): """ Given a string file name, returns a GEOSGeometry. The file may contain WKB, WKT, or HEX. """ # If given a file name, get a real handle. if isinstance(file_h, basestring): file_h = open(file_h, 'rb') # Reading in the file's contents, buf = file_h.read() # If we get WKB need to wrap in buffer(), so run through regexes. if wkt_regex.match(buf) or hex_regex.match(buf): return GEOSGeometry(buf) else: return GEOSGeometry(buffer(buf)) def fromstr(string, **kwargs): "Given a string value, returns a GEOSGeometry object." return GEOSGeometry(string, **kwargs)