Virtualenv friendly GDAL < 3.7 bindings for Python

IMPORTANT NOTE: Starting with version 3.7, GDAL can be installed directly from PyPI without major issues. Therefore, you should not need this package for GDAL 3.7 or later. Pygdal 3.6.* will be the last release of this package.

This package is for you if you had problems installing GDAL in your virtualenv. You can install GDAL into your virtualenv using this package but you still need to install GDAL library and its header files on your system. On Ubuntu it can be done this way:

$ sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

Version of the same package, and GDAL, so that if you have installed GDAL 3.6.4 you need to install 3.6.4.* of this package:

$ gdal-config --version
3.6.4
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages env
$ env/bin/pip install pygdal=="3.6.4.*"

The trick with range of versions required to support pygdal versioning.

Package numpy is also listed as a dependency, so you do not need to install it before installing GDAL. After package is installed you can use is same way as standard GDAL bindings:

from osgeo import gdal, ogr, osr

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