Re: New version of PyNGL and PyNIO available

Mary Haley wrote:
>
> We are please to announce a new release of PyNIO and PyNGL, which are
> now being released as separate packages, and are available as open
> source.
>
> The new version of both packages is 1.3.0b1, and they have the
> following new major features:
>
> - Support for masked arrays added
>
> PyNIO will now return a numpy masked array if a missing value is
> detected on the NetCDF, HDF, or GRIB file. The PyNGL visualization
> routines were also updated to recognize masked arrays. You no
> longer need to set the *MissingValue* resources if you have a
> masked array that contains a valid missing value.
>
> - Extended subscripting added to PyNIO
>
> PyNIO now supports an extended form of subscripting to specify
> subsets using a description string that can reference associated
> coordinate variables if they exist in the file. Dimensions can be
> transposed by varying the order of the coordinate axes in the
> subset specification. Time dimension subsets may be specified using
> ISO-8061-conforming date/time strings if the time dimension has a
> CF-conforming 'units' attribute.
>
> - New analysis functions in PyNGL:
>
> o Ngl.betainc - Evaluates the incomplete beta function.
> o Ngl.chiinv - Evaluates the inverse chi-squared distribution
> function.
> o Ngl.linmsg - Linearly interpolates to fill in missing values.
> o Ngl.regline - Calculates the linear regression coefficient
> between two series.
>
> - New visualization routines in PyNGL:
>
> o Ngl.streamline_scalar_map - routine for generating streamlines
> colored by scalar fields over a map.
> o Ngl.wmstnm - draws station model data.
>
> For a full list and description of what's new, see:
>
> http://www.pyngl.ucar.edu/whatsnew.shtml
>
> We are releasing this as a beta version so we can get some user
> testing of the new features, especially recognition of masked arrays
> and the extended subscripting capability in PyNIO.
>
> Please report to pyngl-talk or Dave or I if you run into problems, and
> we'll try to make sure it gets into the official 1.3.0 release.
>
> Note: building PyNGL and/or PyNIO from source code is not a trivial
> task. We have tried to document this as best as we could, but we
> would also appreciate your feedback in this area. We have provided
> some prebuilt binaries. Send email to me if you run into any
> installation problems.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Mary

Mary: Thanks for releasing the source! I've just tried to build NIO on
my mac, and almost succeeded. I don't have HDFEOS, so I set HAS_HDFEOS
to 0. setup.py does

gcc -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/sw/lib -I/sw/include
build/temp.macosx-10.5-ppc-2.5/niomodule.o -L/sw/lib
-L/Users/jwhitaker/lib -lnio -lmfhdf -ldf -ljpeg -lpng -lz -lnetcdf
-lhdf5_hl -lhdf5 -lsz -lgrib2c -ljasper -lpng -o ./nio.so

but importing nio gives

ImportError: dlopen(./nio.so, 2): Symbol not found: _GDattach
  Referenced from: /Volumes/User/jwhitaker/python/PyNIO-1.3.0b1/nio.so
  Expected in: dynamic lookup

I think that symbol is from hdfeos - so it would appear that it's not
really optional. Funny thing is, I grepped the PyNIO source and I don't
see that symbol referenced anywhere.

-Jeff

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