Version 0.8.6

Released on ECMWF desktops, ecgate and lxc on 2018-10-26. Also on github and pypi (pip install metview)

Bug

• [MPY-186] - Cannot plot a multi-page PostScript file - now we can do it by inserting calls to newpage():
  • e.g. plot(dw, data1, visdef1, newpage(), data2, visdef2) - requires Metview >=5.2
• [MPY-196] - Cannot take scalar numpy numbers (e.g. np.int64) as input arguments to Metview functions

Task

• [MPY-136] - Use environment variable to determine how to invoke Metview (METVIEW_PYTHON_START_CMD)
• [MPY-137] - Support passing of float32 vectors between Metview and Python numPy
• [MPY-153] - Add function to convert NetCDF to xarray dataset
  • e.g. xs = mv.mcross_sect(line=[59,-180,-13,158],data=grib); xarr = xs.to_dataset()
• [MPY-162] - Tidy up value_from_metview
• [MPY-163] - Tidy up push_arg
• [MPY-177] - Revise example scripts in repo
• [MPY-187] - Allow assignment to indexed fields in a Fieldset object
  • e.g. fs[3] = fs[2] + 5
• [MPY-188] - Allow xarray datasets to the provided as input to Metview functions
  • e.g. m = mv.mean(my_xarray_dataset); also f = mv.dataset_to_fieldset(x) - only for very compliant datasets though!
• [MPY-189] - Check and revise the scripts in the examples folder
• [MPY-190] - Create an example using data from the CDS
• [MPY-191] - Ensure that FLEXTRA work from Metview's Python API
• [MPY-192] - Create Jupyter notebook examples
• [MPY-193] - Fix netcdf and geopoints functions that take indexes as parameters
• [MPY-194] - Implement self-check command to ensure Metview installation ok
  • python -m metview selfcheck
• [MPY-195] - Ensure all index-returning functions are context-sensitive
• [MPY-197] - Add ability to export table data as a Pandas Dataframe
  • df = table.to_dataframe()
• [MPY-198] - Add batch plotting tests
• [MPY-199] - Improve organisation of code in bindings.py
• [MPY-200] - Remove experimental 'mf' class
• [MPY-201] - Support extended slicing on Fieldset objects 
  • e.g. fields = fs[2:12:3]

Version 0.8.4

Released on ECMWF desktops, ecgate and lxc on 2018-08-01. Also on github.

Bug

• [MPY-164] - importing the metview module overrides the keyboard interrupt signal
• [MPY-179] - Cannot find libMvMacro.so in /usr/lib

Task

• [MPY-180] - Replace klass with class_ in MARS requests (change in behaviour)
• [MPY-183] - Use cfgrib in metview-python

Version 0.8.1

Released on ECMWF desktops and ecgate on 2018-06-08.

Task

• [MPY-144] - Support passing of geopointset between Macro and Python
• [MPY-150] - Add ability to export ODB table as a Pandas Dataframe
• [MPY-151] - Simplify data classes through multiple inheritance
• [MPY-152] - Allow access to individual geopoints
• [MPY-154] - Implement aliases for 'class' as MARS parameter
• [MPY-155] - Improve error message if correct version of Metview not found

Version 0.8.0

First internal release.