Converts a well-known text string to a pyproj.Proj object

def wkt_to_proj4(wkt):
    """Converts a well-known text string to a pyproj.Proj object"""

    srs = osgeo.osr.SpatialReference()
    srs.ImportFromWkt(wkt)

    return pyproj.Proj(str(srs.ExportToProj4()))