pycdfpp 0.1.6

A modern C++ header only cdf library

CDFpp (CDF++)

A NASA's CDF modern C++ library. This is not a C++ wrapper but a full C++ implementation. Why? CDF files are still used for space physics missions but few implementations are available. The main one is NASA's C implementation available here but it lacks multi-threads support, has an old C interface and has a license which isn't compatible with most Linux distributions policy. There are also Java and Python implementations which are not usable in C++.

List of features and roadmap:

• read uncompressed file headers
• read uncompressed attributes
• read uncompressed variables
• read variable attributes
• loads cdf files from memory (std::vector or char*)
• read variables with nested VXRs
• read compressed file
• read compressed variables
• write uncompressed headers
• write uncompressed attributes
• write uncompressed variables
• write compressed attributes
• write compressed file variables
• handle leap seconds
• Python wrappers
• Documentation
• Examples
• Benchmarks

If you want to understand how it works, how to use the code or what works, you may have to read tests.

Installing

From PyPi

# this is no possible yet
pip3 install --user cdfpp

From sources

meson build
cd build
ninja
sudo ninja install