getting 'is not a wkt string' but works fine with shapely

[mmc1718]

Hi, I am using geodaisy to convert wkt that I am getting from an api into geojson to use as part of a webapp. The response strings I get from the api are not recognised as valid wkt strings by geodaisy, but work fine using Shapely. Because of this I am instead loading the string using shapely, and then using geodaisy to convert the shapely object into geojson. I thought I would share in case there is an easy answer to this.

(sorry it's quite long) but below is an example of a response from the api that I am getting a 'not valid wkt string' error for. I wonder if there is something small in the formatting that geodaisy doesn't like.

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