spacepy.datamodel.readJSONMetadata

spacepy.datamodel.readJSONMetadata(fname, **kwargs)[source]

Read JSON metadata from an ASCII data file

Parameters:
fnamestr

Filename to read metadata from

Changed in version 0.5.0: Filename can now be a .gz to indicate the file is gzipped

Returns:
mdata: spacepy.datamodel.SpaceData

SpaceData with the metadata from the file

Other Parameters:
verbosebool (optional)

set verbose output so metadata tree prints on read (default False)