ecmwflibs

A Python package that wraps some of ECMWF libraries to be used by Python interfaces to ECMWF software.

The snippet of code below should return the path to the ecCodes shared library.

import ecmwflibs
lib = ecmwflibs.find("eccodes")

You can get the versions of libraries:

import ecmwflibs
print(ecmwflibs.versions())
{'eccodes': '2.19.0', 'magics': '4.4.3', 'ecmwflibs': '0.4.5'}

Possible issues

If you get this message on Windows:

DLL load failed while importing _ecmwflibs: The specified module could not be found.

this means that the C++ runtime library is not installed. Please download and install vc_redist.x86.exe or vc_redist.x64.exe from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads.

Acknowledgements

ecmwflibs comes packaged with some third-party open source libraries which are dependencies of Magics and ecCodes. To display the list of embedded libraries and their copyright notices and/or licenses, please type:

python3 -m ecmwflibs credits