Bug#778417: ITP: netcdf-python -- python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library
The netcdf4-python package is the only one described as having implemented most of the newest features of NetCDF-4. It was actually modelled on the Scientific.IO.NetCDF module API. netCDF4 module is required by basemap, so it'll be nice to have it in the archive. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cab4xwxz1tef7h3pza3mozujn46khyzqbcsmkhzkkfpthnr+...@mail.gmail.com
Bug#778417: ITP: netcdf-python -- python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library
Hi everyone, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel writes: @Konrad do you think that this netcdf implementation from scientific python could be replace by this netcdf4-python implementation ? Should we get rid of your implentation and use this one instead (to be clear) The main problem with Python-netCDF interfaces is that no two of them have compatible API even for the most basic operations. Whenever some Python package depends on netCDF, it depends on one of the various Python-netCDF interfaces, and wouldn't work with the other ones. To make it worse, even if your goal is only to provide a single Python interface for new developments, not caring about compatibility, the features of the various Python interfaces are sufficiently different to make a choice very difficult. The unique feature of my own netCDF interface, and the reason why I keep maintaining it, is the C-level API for other Python modules. Each of the other interfaces has such unique features as well. Konrad. -- - Konrad Hinsen Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS Orléans Synchrotron Soleil - Division Expériences Saint Aubin - BP 48 91192 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France Tel. +33-1 69 35 97 15 E-Mail: research AT khinsen DOT fastmail DOT net http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/~hinsen/ ORCID: http://orcid.org/-0003-0330-9428 Twitter: @khinsen - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21734.18557.231820.534...@gargle.gargle.howl
Bug#778417: ITP: netcdf-python -- python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library
Hello, I am the maintainer of python-scientific How does this differ from the existing python-netcdf package? I CC the upstream autor of python-scientific, maybe he can clarify this point but before a question to the netcdf4-python guyes. Does netcdf4-python will support python3 ? @Konrad do you think that this netcdf implementation from scientific python could be replace by this netcdf4-python implementation ? Should we get rid of your implentation and use this one instead (to be clear) It would be nice if at the end only one implementation could be kept and maintain. Cheers Frederic I put here the rest of the message: That is not an easy question to answer (at least with my limited knowledge). The Unidata website (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#Python) lists 8 different python interfaces to NetCDF. Some are faster, and some offer writing in reading writing in other data formats as well as NetCDF. The netcdf4-python package is the only one described as having implemented most of the newest features of NetCDF-4. It was actually modelled on the Scientific.IO.NetCDF module API. The information about the ScientificPython source package which bundles python-netcdf (along with many other modules useful for scientific work), does not contain much easy to digest information about the implemented interface. I did see in the changelog however, that it is at least aware of NetCDF-4 data. Basically, our intention was to package all of the netcdf-* packages under the Unidata banner on github (https://github.com/Unidata). Regards, Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/a2a20ec3b8560d408356cac2fc148e53b1feb...@sun-dag3.synchrotron-soleil.fr
Bug#778417: ITP: netcdf-python -- python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library
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-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150214185529.20773.45062.reportbug@localhost
Bug#778417: ITP: netcdf-python -- python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library
On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 19:55 +0100, Ross Gammon wrote: * Package name: netcdf-python Version : 1.1.3 Upstream Author : University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata * URL : http://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/ How does this differ from the existing python-netcdf package? Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1423940719.23892.5.ca...@adam-barratt.org.uk
Bug#778417: ITP: netcdf-python -- python interface to the netCDF4 (network Common Data Form) library
On 02/14/2015 08:05 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 19:55 +0100, Ross Gammon wrote: * Package name: netcdf-python Version : 1.1.3 Upstream Author : University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata * URL : http://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/ How does this differ from the existing python-netcdf package? That is not an easy question to answer (at least with my limited knowledge). The Unidata website (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/software.html#Python) lists 8 different python interfaces to NetCDF. Some are faster, and some offer writing in reading writing in other data formats as well as NetCDF. The netcdf4-python package is the only one described as having implemented most of the newest features of NetCDF-4. It was actually modelled on the Scientific.IO.NetCDF module API. The information about the ScientificPython source package which bundles python-netcdf (along with many other modules useful for scientific work), does not contain much easy to digest information about the implemented interface. I did see in the changelog however, that it is at least aware of NetCDF-4 data. Basically, our intention was to package all of the netcdf-* packages under the Unidata banner on github (https://github.com/Unidata). Regards, Ross signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
