cf.CellMethods

class cf.CellMethods(*cell_methods)[source]

Bases: list

A CF cell methods object to describe the characteristic of a field that is represented by cell values.

Initialization

Parameters:
string : str or cf.CellMethod or cf.CellMethods, optional

Initialize new instance from a CF-netCDF-like cell methods string. See the parse method for details. By default an empty cell methods is created.

Examples:
>>> c = cf.CellMethods()
>>> c = cf.CellMethods('time: max: height: mean')

Attributes

axes
comment Each cell method’s comment keyword.
intervals Each cell method’s interval keyword(s).
method Each cell method’s method keyword.
cf.CellMethods.names
over Each cell method’s over keyword.
where Each cell method’s where keyword.
within Each cell method’s within keyword.

Methods

Undocumented methods behave exactly as their counterparts in a built-in list.

copy Return a deep copy.
dump Return a string containing a full description of the instance.
equals True if two cell methods are equal, False otherwise.
equivalent True if two cell methods are equivalent, False otherwise.
has_cellmethod Return True if and only if this cell methods is a super set of another.
inspect Inspect the attributes.
cf.CellMethods.netcdf_translation

CellMethods list-like methods

These methods provide functionality exactly as their counterparts in a built-in list.

append L.append(object) – append object to end
count
extend L.extend(iterable) – extend list by appending elements from the iterable
index Raises ValueError if the value is not present.
insert L.insert(index, object) – insert object before index
pop Raises IndexError if list is empty or index is out of range.
remove L.remove(value) – remove first occurrence of value.
reverse L.reverse() – reverse IN PLACE