On 8/3/11 9:46 AM, Gökhan Sever wrote:
> In [23]: from netCDF4 import Dataset
>
> In [24]: f = Dataset("test.nc <http://test.nc>")
>
> In [25]: f.variables['reflectivity'].shape
> Out[25]: (6, 18909, 506)
>
> In [26]: f.variables['reflectivity'].size
> Out[26]: 57407724
>
> In [27]: f.variables['reflectivity'][:].dtype
> Out[27]: dtype('float32')
>
> In [28]: timeit z = f.variables['reflectivity'][:]
> 1 loops, best of 3: 731 ms per loop

that seems pretty fast, actually -- are you sure that [:] forces the 
full data read? It probably does, but I'm not totally sure.

is "z" a numpy array object at that point?

-Chris


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