[SciPy-User] scipy.io.netcdf error

[Neil Berg]

Hello scipy community,

I recently installed scipy 0.10 through Chris Fonnesbeck's Scipy Superpack script.  When trying to read a netCDF file I receive an error message.  

>>> python
>>> from scipy.io import netcdf
>>> f = netcdf.netcdf_file('/Users/vert/Downloads/sres.nc','r')
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/scipy-0.10.0.dev_20110629-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/scipy/io/netcdf.py", line 205, in __init__
   self._read()
 File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/scipy-0.10.0.dev_20110629-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/scipy/io/netcdf.py", line 492, in _read
   self._read_var_array()
 File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/scipy-0.10.0.dev_20110629-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/scipy/io/netcdf.py", line 576, in _read_var_array
   buffer=mm, offset=begin_, order=0)
TypeError: data type ">d8" not understood

Has anyone encountered this error and is there a way to cure it? 

Many thanks,
Neil

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Mac OS X 10.6.7
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