cf-python 2.0.1.post2

API change at version 2.0
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* **Note:** There have been some API changes between version 1.x and
2.x of cf-python. Version 1.x will not get any new functionality, but
will be patched for the foreseeable future. The latest 1.x release is
`version 1.5.4.post5
<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cf-python/1.5.4.post5>`_

Home page
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* `cf-python <http://cfpython.bitbucket.io>`_

Documentation
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* `Online documentation for the latest stable release
<http://cfpython.bitbucket.io/docs/latest/>`_

Dependencies
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* The package runs on Linux and Mac OS operating systems.

* Requires a python version from 2.6 up to, but not including, 3.0.

* See the `README.md
<https://bitbucket.org/cfpython/cf-python/src/master/README.md>`_
file for further dependencies

Visualisation
=============

* The `cfplot package <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cf-plot>`_ at
version 1.9.10 or newer provides metadata-aware visualisation for
cf-python fields. This is not a dependency for cf-python.


Command line utilities
======================

* The `cfdump` tool generates text representations on standard output
of the CF fields contained in the input files.

* The `cfa` tool creates and writes to disk the CF fields contained in
the input files.

* During installation these scripts will be copied automatically to a
location given by the ``PATH`` environment variable.

Code license
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* `MIT License <http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>`_