epygram.formats — Formats

Module contains:

• all formats classes.
• utilities to play with resource formats:
  • guess the format of an existing resource in a given container;
  • create a Resource instance with a generic function, eventually (if already existing) without knowing its format a priori;
  • some catalogs of GRIB numbers
  • ...

• epygram.formats.FA — Interface-Class to the FA format
• epygram.formats.LFA — Interface-Class to the LFA format
• epygram.formats.DDHLFA — Interface-Class to the DDHLFA format
• epygram.formats.LFI — Interface-Class to the LFI format
• epygram.formats.GeoPoints — Interface-Class to the GeoPoints format
• epygram.formats.TIFFMF — Interface-Class to the TIFFMF format
• epygram.formats.netCDF — Interface-Class to the netCDF format
• epygram.formats.GRIB — Interface-Class to the GRIB format
• epygram.formats.grib_utilities — GRIB tables and co.

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epygram.formats.guess(filename)

Returns the name of the format of the resource located at a given filename, if succeeded.

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epygram.formats.resource(filename, openmode, fmt=None, **kwargs)

Returns an instance of Resource of the requested fmt format, located at the given filename, open with the given openmode.

Parameters:

• filename – name (path) of the file to open
• openmode – opening mode (‘r’, ‘a’, ‘w’)
• fmt – format of the resource; with openmode ‘r’ or ‘a’, fmt is optional and can be guessed from the existing resource

Other kwargs are passed to the resource constructor.