Plugins
Pydap uses a modular infrastructure for the data formats it understands. New data formats can be supported by creating and installing independent plugins, which are simply Python modules that convert the data into a format pydap can understand. At the moment pydap has plugins for:
- netCDF 3 files
- Matlab 4 and 5 files
- GrADS/GRIB files
- HDF 5 files
- Sequential data in SQL databases
Each of these plugins has its own dependencies.
Also, out–of–the–box pydap comes with a plugin for CSV files, based on the csv Python native module.