nctoolkit.DataSet.to_nc

DataSet.to_nc(self, out, zip=True, overwrite=False)

Save a dataset to a named file This will only work with single file datasets.

Parameters

• out (str) – Output file name.

• zip (boolean) – True/False depending on whether you want to zip the file. Default is True.

• overwrite (boolean) – If out file exists, do you want to overwrite it? Default is False.

Examples

If you want to export a dataset to a netCDF file, do the following:

>>> ds.to_nc("out.nc")

By default this file will be zipped. If you do not want it zipped, do this:

>>> ds.to_nc("out.nc", zip = False)

By default this cannot overwrite files. If the output file exists, do the following:

>>> ds.to_nc("out.nc", overwrite = True)