Reading a binary string of data into a netcdf dataset

[MGSL]

I am trying to read a binary string that represents an entire netcdf file into a dataset object. Is there any way to accomplish what I am describing? The grib api has a function that allows you to read in binary data directly to a grib message, but I am not sure why there is no way to do the same thing in the netcdf api. Thank you

-MGSL

[shoyer]

This is possible with the scipy.io.netcdf library, but not with this package. I know that there is interest in adding this to the official netCDF C-library, but to my knowledge it hasn't landed in a release yet.

[MGSL]

Shoyer,
Thank you for the info! I will check out that other lib. Do you know if the binary string feature is on the roadmap? If not, how does one get involved in order to push out these features? Thank you.

-MGSL

[shoyer]

@MGSL probably best to ask the Unidata developers over in #406 (this issue is a duplicate of that one).

[dopplershift]

I think the C library gained the interface--I just haven't been able to carve out the time to implement in Python.