Plot MultiPolygon adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15968762/shapefile-and-matplotlib-plot-polygon-collection-of-shapefile-coordinates

plot_multipolygon.py

import shapefile

sf = shapefile.Reader("data/test.shp")

fig=plt.figure()
ax=fig.add_subplot(111)

for nshp in xrange(len(shapes)):
    ptchs   = []
    pts     = np.array(shapes[nshp].points)
    prt     = shapes[nshp].parts
    par     = list(prt) + [pts.shape[0]]
    for pij in xrange(len(prt)):
        ptchs.append(Polygon(pts[par[pij]:par[pij+1]]))
        plt.plot(pts[par[pij:0],par[pij+1:1]])
    ax.add_collection(PatchCollection(ptchs,edgecolor='white', linewidths=0.5))
plt.show()