Re: [Matplotlib-users] netcdf4-python build

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> From: Damon McDougall <dam...@gm...>
>To: Michael Rawlins <raw...@ya...> 
>Cc: "mat...@li..." <mat...@li...> 
>Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 2:50 PM
>Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] netcdf4-python build
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>From what I remember dealing with the netcdf c library, you have to explicitly set a compile flag to enable hdf5 support. That was a while ago, though. I'm not sure if things have changed.
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>Hope this helps.
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>I did not do a source compile. 
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>I've reinstalled libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 package and now have the right HDF5 library files. Successfully built and installed netCDF4-1.0.  My script loads in module but a read/write issue is present. This is code that worked on previous system. Error:
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>  File "test.py", line 96, in <module>
>    data.missing_value=-9.99
>  File "netCDF4.pyx", line 2570, in netCDF4.Variable.__setattr__ (netCDF4.c:28242)
>  File "netCDF4.pyx", line 2392, in netCDF4.Variable.setncattr (netCDF4.c:26309)
>  File "netCDF4.pyx", line 1013, in netCDF4._set_att (netCDF4.c:12699)
>AttributeError: NetCDF: Write to read only
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>The statement in the code triggers the error.
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>data.missing_value=-9.99 .
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>MR
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