Package dap :: Package plugins :: Module lib

Module lib

Plugins for accessing data formats.

This module contains plugins for accessing different data formats, together with functions to locate and load the proper handlers.

Functions

loadplugins()
Load all available plugins.

loadhandler(file_, environ=None, plugins=None)
Load a handler for a given file.

Imports: os, re, pkg_resources.iter_entry_points, exceptions.ExtensionNotSupportedError

Function Details

Load all available plugins.

This function returns a list of all available plugins as modules.

Load a handler for a given file.

This function returns a Handler object able to process a given data file. Eg:

>>> H = loadhandler('file.nc')  # load a netCDF file
>>> dataset = H._parsecontraints()

This will load the full (unconstrained) dataset to ``dataset``.