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
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