spacepy.datamodel.toCDF¶
- spacepy.datamodel.toCDF(fname, SDobject, **kwargs)[source]¶
Create a CDF file from a SpacePy datamodel representation
- Parameters
- fnamestr
Filename to write to
- SDobjectspacepy.datamodel.SpaceData
SpaceData with associated attributes and variables in dmarrays
- Returns
- None
- Other Parameters
- skeletonstr (optional)
create new CDF from a skeleton file (default ‘’)
- flattenbool (optional)
flatten incoming datamodel - if SpaceData objects are nested (default False)
- overwritebool (optional)
allow overwrite of an existing target file (default False)
- autoNRVbool (optional)
attempt automatic identification of non-record varying entries in CDF
- backwardbool (optional)
create CDF in backward-compatible format (default is v3+ compatibility only)
- TT2000bool (optional)
write variables beginning with ‘Epoch’ as datatype CDF_TT2000 (default is automatic selection of EPOCH or EPOCH16)
- verbosebool (optional)
verbosity flag