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17 changes: 10 additions & 7 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ The Python Shapefile Library (PyShp) reads and writes ESRI Shapefiles in pure Py

- **Author**: [Joel Lawhead](https://github.com/GeospatialPython)
- **Maintainers**: [James Parrott](https://github.com/JamesParrott) & [Karim Bahgat](https://github.com/karimbahgat)
- **Version**: 3.1.7.dev
- **Date**: 6th Nov 2026
- **Version**: 3.1.7
- **Date**: 7th Nov 2026
- **License**: [MIT](https://github.com/GeospatialPython/pyshp/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT)

## Contents
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# Recent version Changes
See also the Older Version Changes section below
## 3.1.7
### Bug fix
- Non-positive .shp record lengths (@lunnuyenhi-dev) and mismatched shape types now raise CorruptShpShapeRecord instead of hanging forever, raising a KeyError, or passing silently.

## 3.1.6
### Feature
- Encodings can now be read from .cpg files (and optionally written to them).

## 3.1.5
### Bug fix
- Fixed another bug causing dates before the year 1000 to be encoded as less than 8 chars under "%Y%m%d (found by [Thomas Beierlein](https://github.com/GeospatialPython/pyshp/issues/435))



# The Basics

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# Older version changes

## 3.1.5
### Bug fix
- Fixed another bug causing dates before the year 1000 to be encoded as less than 8 chars under "%Y%m%d (found by [Thomas Beierlein](https://github.com/GeospatialPython/pyshp/issues/435))

## 3.1.4
### Bug fix
- Fix bug causing dates supplied as length 8 strings of digits to be encoded by the custom encoding, not ascii.
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VERSION 3.1.7
2026-11-07
* Improved handling of corrupt .shp record headers [@lunnuyenhi-dev] (see [issue 453](https://github.com/GeospatialPython/pyshp/issues/453))

VERSION 3.1.6
2026-07-25
* Encodings can now be read from .cpg files (and optionally written to them).
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from __future__ import annotations

__version__ = "3.1.6"
__version__ = "3.1.7"

import abc
import array
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