The python cf package implements the CF data model for the reading, writing and processing of data and its metadata.

Availability

All managed Linux workstations up to 18.04 bionic

Instructions for users

This is in the system Python on the Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) machines. On the Ubuntu 12.04 machines you need to load a python module to use it.

Licence Details
Admin notes

On Trusty, use Ubuntu packaged netcdf/hdf5 etc.

 python setup.py build python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local/shared/ubuntu-14.04/x86_64/python-modules --install-scripts=/usr/local/shared/ubuntu-14.04/bin 

On xenial, installed it through pip:

pip install cf-python --prefix=/usr/local/

Copied the files it created and built a deb from them.