Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ross Gammon <rossgam...@mail.dk>
* Package name : netcdf-python Version : 1.1.3 Upstream Author : University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata * URL : http://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/ * License : ISC, Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library NetCDF version 4 has many features not found in earlier versions of the library and is implemented on top of HDF5. This module can read and write files in both the new netCDF 4 and the old netCDF 3 format, and can create files that are readable by HDF5 clients. The API is modelled after Scientific.IO.NetCDF, and should be familiar to users of that module. Most new features of netCDF 4 are implemented, such as multiple unlimited dimensions, groups and zlib data compression. All the new numeric data types (such as 64 bit and unsigned integer types) are implemented. Compound and variable length (vlen) data types are supported, but the enum and opaque data types are not. Mixtures of compound and vlen data types (compound types containing vlens, and vlens containing compound types) are not supported. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Unidata) also provide C++ and Fortran interfaces to the NetCDF C library. This is their python interface. There is already python-netcdf packaged for Debian as part of the Scientific Python source. However, netcdf-python implements different parts of the interface and is supported by the organisation that controls the NetCDF library. The package will be maintained within the Debian GIS Team (as well as the NetCDF C, C++, and Fortran libraries). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
