Get the extent from a shapefile

GetExtent

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8


"""
   Get extent from SHP

   version 1.0
   autor 	José Gómez Castaño
   email 	jgcasta@gmail.com
	
   @precondition GDAL must be installed

"""

from os import chdir,system
from osgeo import ogr

system("clear")

driver = ogr.GetDriverByName('ESRI Shapefile')
dataSource1 = driver.Open('madrid.shp', 0)
layer1 = dataSource1.GetLayer()
extent = layer1.GetExtent()

print 'Extent:', extent
print 'UL:', extent[0], extent[3]
print 'LR:', extent[1], extent[2]