Re: Masked arrays in PyNIO 1.3.0b1

Hi Dave,

Thanks very much for the info, and your willingness to
modify the get_value() method for the final release of
PyNIO 1.3.0.

Daran

--
> Hi Daran,
>
> It seems that you are correct that PyNIO does not return masked
> arrays when
> data is requested through the get_value interface.  This is
> definitely an
> oversight that will be corrected before the final release version
> goes out.
>
> Note however that given your use case:
>
> import Nio, Ngl
> dirc = Ngl.pynglpath("data")
> ufile = Nio.open_file(dirc + "/cdf/Ustorm.cdf","r")
> u = ufile.variables["u"]
> u_data = u.get_value()
>
> the only line that needs to be changed to work around the problem is
> the last one:
>
> u_data = u[:]
>
> Actually this is true unless the data variable happens to be a
> scalar, in which case
> it will not work.
>
> I think it will only require changes to Nio.py to fix this problem.
> Assuming this is true,
> I will post the new version to the mailing list once we have a solution.
>   -dave