Write shapefile to WKT text

parseshp.py

import os
import shapefile
from shapely.geometry import Polygon

if __name__ == "__main__":

	sf = shapefile.Reader("TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.shp")

	assert len(sf.shapes()) == len(sf.records())
	fieldIndex = {}
	for i, (fieldName, fieldType, fieldSize, fieldInfo) in enumerate(sf.fields[1:]):
		fieldIndex[fieldName] = i
	print fieldIndex
	iso3Field = fieldIndex['ISO3']

	for sp, rc in zip(sf.shapes(), sf.records()):
		print rc[iso3Field], len(sp.points)
		ply = Polygon(sp.points)
		#print "sp.points", sp.points
		#print ply.wkt
		#print sp.parts
		#print sp.shapeType,
		
		fi = open(os.path.join("borders", rc[iso3Field]+".txt"), "wt")
		fi.write(ply.wkt)
		fi.close()