spacepy.datamodel.toCDF¶
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spacepy.datamodel.
toCDF
(fname, SDobject, **kwargs)[source]¶ Create a CDF file from a SpacePy datamodel representation
Parameters: fname : str
Filename to write to
SDobject : spacepy.datamodel.SpaceData
SpaceData with associated attributes and variables in dmarrays
Returns: None
Other Parameters: skeleton : str (optional)
create new CDF from a skeleton file (default ‘’)
flatten : bool (optional)
flatten incoming datamodel - if SpaceData objects are nested (default False)
overwrite : bool (optional)
allow overwrite of an existing target file (default False)
autoNRV : bool (optional)
attempt automatic identification of non-record varying entries in CDF
backward : bool (optional)
create CDF in backward-compatible format (default is v3+ compatibility only)
TT2000 : bool (optional)
write variables beginning with ‘Epoch’ as datatype CDF_TT2000 (default is automatic selection of EPOCH or EPOCH16)
verbose : bool (optional)
verbosity flag