The suggestion to install matplotlib.basemap seems to be the right direction
to go. However, I have been unsuccessful in importing the file by this
method. This is what I have been trying. 

from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab
mpl_toolkits.basemap.NetCDFFile(output.nc, mode='r', maskandscale=True,
cache=None, mmap=True, username=None, password=None, verbose=False)

I am getting the following error as a result.  

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/interpott/Documents/trial.py", line 6, in <module>
    mpl_toolkits.basemap.NetCDFFile(output.nc, mode='r', maskandscale=True,
cache=None, mmap=True, username=None, password=None, verbose=False)
NameError: name 'mpl_toolkits' is not defined

How do I force the location of the Netcdf file? and Why am I getting that
mpl_toolkits are not defined? 
Thanks for the help, 

Jon 


Jeff Whitaker wrote:
> 
> Eric Firing wrote:
>> Gökhan SEVER wrote:
>>   
>>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:09 PM, JPKay <kay1...@vandals.uidaho.edu 
>>> <mailto:kay1...@vandals.uidaho.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>     Hello,
>>>     I am trying to use matplotlib to create a quiver plot of a NetCDF
>>>     file with
>>>     the extension .nc. The Netcdf file is a series of arrays that
>>> contain
>>>     information about the stress tensors on a globe.
>>>
>>>     I am struggling to import the file into python and having the quiver
>>>     data
>>>     show up.
>>>     To import the file I have been using:
>>>     “ncdump file.nc <http://file.nc>”
>>>
>>>
>>>     Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>>>     Thanks,
>>>     Jon
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>>>
>>>
>>> I recommend you to check netcdf4-python 
>>> (http://code.google.com/p/netcdf4-python/)
>>> You can load both netcdf3 and 4 files. Additionally, there are date 
>>> conversion utilities which help to do transforms between numbers and 
>>> dates and vice versa.
>>>     
>>
>> Caution: it's great, and I use it, but it is not trivial to build and 
>> install.  I think the OP would do best to start with pupynere. The web 
>> site for download looks like it is working: 
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pupynere/
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>   
> Note that if the OP is using basemap, an interface to pupynere is 
> already included (see 
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/api/basemap_api.html#mpl_toolkits.basemap.NetCDFFile).
> 
> -Jeff
> 
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