Load selected rows from shapefile into a geoDF

selRowsGPD.py

import fiona
import geopandas as gpd
from datetime import datetime as dt

def getRows(fn, lookupList, col=None):
    reader = fiona.open(fn)
    crs = reader.crs
    if col == None:
        return gpd.GeoDataFrame.from_features([reader[x] for x in lookupList],crs=crs)
    else:
        return gpd.GeoDataFrame.from_features([reader[x] for x in range(len(reader)) if reader[x]['properties'][col] in lookupList],crs=crs)