spacepy.datamodel.toCDF¶

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)

verbose : bool (optional)

verbosity flag