Convert a ESRI Shapefile to Pandas DataFrame

shp_to_df.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import pandas as pd
from shapefile import Reader as read_shp

def shp_to_df(shp_filepath):
  data = {}
  shp = read_shp(shp_filepath)
  fields = shp.fields[1:] # Skip 'DeletionFlag'
  records = shp.records()
  
  for f in fields:
    data[f[0]] = []

  for record in records:
    for k, v in zip(fields, record):
      if type(v) == bytes:
        v = v.decode('ISO-8859-1') # or 'UTF-8'
      data[k[0]].append(v)

  return pd.DataFrame(data)