How read Common Data Format (CDF) in Python

Question

I need to read CDF file with using python. I have found libraries but i did not understand how use it. For example at this(Python lib), i need to download CDF lib, i don\'t

Answer 1

If you have Python's package tool, pip installed, you can get the spacepy cdf library as follows:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/spacepy/spacepy.git

Note this will install a lot of dependencies, including numpy and scipy. These can be a bit difficult to install from scratch. You might want to install a ready-made package first, e.g. anaconda. Once that's done, just use the above command and spacepy should install like a breeze.

Once the installation of spacepy was successful, according to this example it should work something like this:

from spacepy import pycdf
cdf = pycdf.CDF('/path/to/file.cdf')
print(cdf)