nctoolkit.DataSet.format

DataSet.format(self, ext=None)

Zip the dataset This will compress the files within the dataset. This works lazily. :param ext: 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