Search for geovector feature by attribute

[bhbraswell]

In Python I am manually searching through features to find the one I want:

def find_geometry(self, attribute, value):
    for fid in self.get_fids():
        feature = self.get_geom(fid)
        if value == self.get_attribute(fid, attribute):
            return self.get_geom(fid)
    return None

But I'm wondering if it's possible to do this more efficiently within gippy.

[matthewhanson]

Yes if I understand correctly. Open up your db or shapely with gippy.GeoVector

Then you can use the where member function to filter based on any attribute and value. It's much faster than retrieving all values and filtering in python.