pygtfs 0.1.4

Overview

pygtfs is a library that models information stored in Google’s [General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)](https://developers.google.com/transit/) format. GTFS is a format designed to specify information about a transit system, such as a city’s subways or a private company’s bus services. pygtfs stores information in an SQLite database using SQLAlchemy to facilitate the storage of Python objects in a relational database.

pygtfs is a fork of @eoghanmurray’s fork of a @andrewblim’s gtfs-sql which is a fork of @bmander’s gtfs. See the git logs for more fun history.

License: MIT, included in license.txt.

Dependencies

• [SQLAlchemy](http://www.sqlalchemy.org/) 0.7.8. Used for all mapping of GTFS objects to the relational DB. You’ll need to be familiar with it to read the code; the [documentation](http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/) is pretty solid.

• [pytz](http://pytz.sourceforge.net/) 2012d. A few GTFS fields are expected to be in a [tz time zone format](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones).

• [six](http://pythonhosted.org/six/). Used in order to support python2 and python3 in a single code base.

• [docopt](http://docopt.org/). Pythonic command line arguments parser, that will make you smile

Installation

Get [setuptools](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools) if you don’t have it, clone the repo, and use python setup.py install.

Documentation

Hosted on https://pygtfs.readthedocs.org/

TODO

• Improve testing; add some unit testing framework and test with a variety of GTFS data feeds.

• Add more docs

Why fork?

• natively support several gtfs feeds per database

• less SLOC, more DRY

• add python3 support

• renamed to a more generic name

• will continue to maintain