comparison to other libraries

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There are several gtfs libraries available for Python, but they are pretty hard to find. Let's try to collect them all here. pygtfs (this tool)

pros

• Can handle multiple feeds in one database (using the additional feed table).
• Supports python3 and python2 with the same codebase
• Has at least some api documentation available.
• Can handle large gtfs files.

cons

• Young and perhaps untested
• Very basic
• The documentation is somewhat lacking

Google's Transitfeed

https://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/

pros

• Sort of a reference implementation
• Tested`
• Has several additional tools (validator, schedule viewer)

cons

• No Python3 support
• Loads the feed into memory, which can take very long time (several hours) and large memory demands (~2G) for large datasets (120M zipped). Every time you use the feed.

gftsdb

http://gtfsdb.com

gtfs-sql