rasterio.drivers module

Driver policies and utilities

GDAL has many standard and extension format drivers and completeness of these drivers varies greatly. It’s possible to succeed poorly with some formats and drivers, meaning that easy problems can be solved but that harder problems are blocked by limitations of the drivers and formats.

NetCDF writing, for example, is presently blacklisted. Rasterio users should use netcdf4-python instead: http://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/.

rasterio.drivers.driver_from_extension(path)

Attempt to auto-detect driver based on the extension.

Parameters

path (str or pathlike object) – The path to the dataset to write with.

Returns

The name of the driver for the extension.

Return type

str

rasterio.drivers.is_blacklisted(name, mode)

Returns True if driver name and mode are blacklisted.

rasterio.drivers.raster_driver_extensions()
Returns

Map of extensions to the driver.

Return type

dict