pylas.lasreader module

class pylas.lasreader.LasReader(stream, closefd=True)

Bases: object

This class handles the reading of the different parts of a las file.

As the Header is necessary to be able to understand how the data is structured, it will be read during initialisation of the instance

close()

closes the file object used by the reader

read()

Reads the whole las data (header, vlrs ,points, etc) and returns a LasData object

read_evlrs()

Reads the EVLRs of the file, will fail if the file version does not support evlrs

read_header()

Reads the head of the las file and returns it

read_vlrs()

Reads and return the vlrs of the file