Python Geopandas throwing "Shell is not a Linear Ring" Error

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I am new to python and I am trying to open a shape file but when I open the file I am getting a message that says "Shell is not a Linear Ring" Message when I try and open it via command line. My code is two lines long so I am not really sure whats going on here...

Code:

import geopandas as gpd

gdp.read_file("tl_2016_17_tract.shp")

Error:

"Shell is not a LinearRing"

I've also tried opening the shape file with R and QGIS and both worked fine. I think it might have something to do with my installation of python because I was having some issues with that earlier. I can't find a good explanation of the error "Shell is not a LinearRing" anywhere!

Thanks for the help!

geopandas gis python-3.x python
1 Answers

A user with the exact same problem said:

I resolved this issue - I believe it had to do with geopandas and how it was installed. I resolved it by using:

conda remove geopandas

I originally installed via conda-forge channel

and then installing via pip:

pip install geopandas

I also went through and installed some packaged via homebrew, but I am not sure if that made a difference.

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