Dimensions

Class Dimension is used to define the shape of NetCDF variables. In NetCDF, a variable, an instance of pnetcdf.Variable, is a multi-dimensional array. Methods in pnetcdf.Dimension provide an interface to access dimensions objects stored in the file.

Read-only python fields of class pnetcdf.Dimension

The following class fields are read-only and should not be modified by the user.

name

String name of Dimension instance. This class field is read-only and should not be modified by the user. To rename a dimension, use File.rename_dim() method.

Type: str

size

The current size of Dimension (its value can be obtained by calling python function len() on the Dimension instance).

Type: int