GDAL doesn't read TIFF in Python

Question

I am trying to open a GeoTIFF using the following code:

filename = r"C:\Users\user\Downloads\grdtocsv\ers_to_tiff\old.tiff"
sourceds = gdal.Open(filename)

The thing is that I dont get any error and the 'sourceds' is empty

The version of GDAL is 3.4.3

• mikewatt: Enable exceptions then see what error you get: gdal.org/api/…

Answer 1

This is a "gotcha" in the GDAL Python bindings.

from osgeo import gdal
gdal.UseExceptions() # <---- Add this line
gdal.open(r'C:\Users\user\Downloads\grdtocsv\ers_to_tiff\old.tiff')

https://gdal.org/api/python_gotchas.html#python-bindings-do-not-raise-exceptions-unless-you-explicitly-call-useexceptions