clean-up _ctypes

jorisvandenbossche · jorisvandenbossche · commit 9c38c9d526f2 · 2020-08-28T17:04:02.000+02:00
diff --git a/shapely/geometry/base.py b/shapely/geometry/base.py
@@ -190,8 +190,6 @@ class BaseGeometry(object):
     #     Property by which the GEOS geometry is accessed.
     # __p__ : object
     #     Parent (Shapely) geometry
-    # _ctypes_data : object
-    #     Cached ctypes data buffer
     # _ndim : int
     #     Number of dimensions (2 or 3, generally)
     # _crs : object
@@ -202,7 +200,6 @@ class BaseGeometry(object):
     #     case of a multipart geometry member.
     __geom__ = EMPTY
     __p__ = None
-    _ctypes_data = None
     _ndim = None
     _crs = None
     _other_owned = False
@@ -287,13 +284,6 @@ def __ne__(self, other):
 
     __hash__ = None
 
-    # Array and ctypes interfaces
-    # ---------------------------
-
-    @property
-    def _ctypes(self):
-        raise NotImplementedError
-
     # Coordinate access
     # -----------------
 
diff --git a/shapely/geometry/linestring.py b/shapely/geometry/linestring.py
@@ -73,12 +73,6 @@ def svg(self, scale_factor=1., stroke_color=None):
             'points="{0}" opacity="0.8" />'
             ).format(pnt_format, 2. * scale_factor, stroke_color)
 
-    @property
-    def _ctypes(self):
-        if not self._ctypes_data:
-            self._ctypes_data = self.coords._ctypes
-        return self._ctypes_data
-
     @property
     def xy(self):
         """Separate arrays of X and Y coordinate values
