Grads scripting language

[Eric DeWeaver]

Hi Tom,

In case you're not aware of it, there is a python-based language
called CDAT, produced by PCMDI, which works with grads control files.
Personally, I find the grads scripting language much easier
to use.  Then again, CDAT has lots of powerful and useful features,
and of course all the python goodies.

The page for it is http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/software.

High on my wish list would be a matlab interface, similar to the
"readnc" function for netcdf files.  I've written something like this
for fortran90, but it's a little dated.

Best Wishes,

Eric



On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Tom Pollard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for all of the quick responses.
>
> On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Jennifer Adams wrote:
> > Take a look at http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gsf.html
> > You have to tweak a few things in your scripts, but this capability
> > allows you to call your own library of small functions.
>
> Ok, I didn't know about this.  It's no exactly what I had in mind,
> but it looks much better than nothing.
>
> > On Jan 31, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Tom Pollard wrote:
> >> If I can ask a provocative question, are people really happy with the
> >> scripting language?  I started to work on writing some scripts last
> >> year and found the language to be very limiting in a number of ways.
> >> The main thing that bothered me was that didn't seem to be possible
> >> to load one script from another, which prevents you from building up
> >> libraries of reusable functions.  Has anyone considered using Tcl or
> >> Python as an alternative scripting language?  If so, I'd love to help
> >> work on this, in my (admittedly limited) free time.
> It sounds like the answer is "no" - no one else is interested in
> trying to integrate Tcl or Python as a scripting language for Grads?
>
> Tom
>