Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
David Brown <dbrown@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > When we recently relinked our software products, NCL and PyNIO, with > the newly released version of > the NetCDF 4.0 library we discovered that there seems to have been a > change in the actual, as opposed > to the documented, rules for variable names. Specifically it appears > that names that begin with a digit can no longer > be written to NetCDF files. Howdy All! As David points out, creating names beginning with a digit are no longer allowed in version 3.6.3 and version 4.0. This is in accordance with the documented rules, but was never enforced in previous versions. We are changing the code (and the documentation) so that names beginning with a digit are allowed again. Users should note that such names also violate the CF conventions, and possibly other conventions. I'll announce here when the code has been changed, and those who need to create objects with names that begin with a digit can grab the daily snapshot. Thanks, Ed -- Ed Hartnett -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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