problem with netCDF4 OpenDAP

[Jason Swails]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Tom P <werotizy at freent.dd> wrote:

> I'm having a problem trying to access OpenDAP files using netCDF4.
> The netCDF4 is installed from the Anaconda package. According to their
> changelog, openDAP is supposed to be supported.
>
> netCDF4.__version__
> Out[7]:
> '1.1.8'
>
> Here's some code:
>
> url = '
> http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/ersst/v3b/netcdf/ersst.201507.nc'
> nc = netCDF4.Dataset(url)
>
> I get the error -
> netCDF4/_netCDF4.pyx in netCDF4._netCDF4.Dataset.__init__
> (netCDF4/_netCDF4.c:9551)()
>
> RuntimeError: NetCDF: file not found
>
>
> However if I download the same file, it works -
> url = '/home/tom/Downloads/ersst.201507.nc'
> nc = netCDF4.Dataset(url)
> print nc
>  . . . .
>
> Is it something I'm doing wrong?


​Yes.  URLs are not files and cannot be opened like normal files.  netCDF4
*requires* a local file as far as I can tell.

All the best,
Jason

-- 
Jason M. Swails
BioMaPS,
Rutgers University
Postdoctoral Researcher
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