extract a shapefile's attribute table to TSV

shp2tsv.py

import sys, shapefile

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print "Usage: shp2tsv.py SHAPEFILE\n"
    exit(-1)

sf = shapefile.Reader(sys.argv[1])
recs = sf.records()

fields = []
for f in sf.fields[1:]:
    fields.append(f[0])

print '\t'.join(fields)

for rec in recs:
    print '\t'.join(map(str,rec))