nctoolkit.DataSet.format

DataSet.format(ext=None)

format: Change the netCDF format of a dataset.

This will compress the files within the dataset. This works lazily.

Parameters:

ext (str) – New format. Must be one of “nc”, “nc1”, “nc2”, “nc4” and “nc5” . netCDF = nc1 netCDF version 2 (64-bit offset) = nc2/nc netCDF4 (HDF5) = nc4 netCDF4-classi = nc4c netCDF version 5 (64-bit data) = nc5

Examples

Change the format of a dataset to netCDF4: >>> ds.format(“nc4”)

Change the format of a dataset to netCDF5: >>> ds.format(“nc5”)