Re: [python-users] [netCDF4] Error when saving >2GB NETCDF file >> NetCDF: Operation not allowed in define mode

• To: Andrew Joros <andrew.joros@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [python-users] [netCDF4] Error when saving >2GB NETCDF file >> NetCDF: Operation not allowed in define mode
• From: Ryan May <rmay@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 13:32:49 -0700

Andrew,

What does your call to Dataset for the one you're writing to look like?
What exactly is lons there?

Can you reproduce this with a simple example (e.g. creating a 2GB array of
ones to write to the file)?

Ryan

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Andrew Joros <andrew.joros@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am across this error when trying to write a new NETCDF from subset of a
> LARGE NETCDF file :
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "wrfextract.py", line 204, in <module>
>     longitude[:] = lons
>   File "netCDF4/_netCDF4.pyx", line 3996, in 
> netCDF4._netCDF4.Variable.__setitem__
> (netCDF4/_netCDF4.c:43637)
>   File "netCDF4/_netCDF4.pyx", line 4208, in
> netCDF4._netCDF4.Variable._put (netCDF4/_netCDF4.c:45517)
> RuntimeError: NetCDF: Operation not allowed in define mode
> -bash-4.1$ lt /Input/WRF_AIC/WRFCorn/wrfout*
>
>
> I googled around online and I have come across discussion about how saving
> Netcdf files >2GB is problematic. Haven't found a Python solution though.
> I am using the netCDF4 package in Python FYI.
>
> Has anyone come across as solution in Python for this?
>
> Thanks
>
> -anj
>
>
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Ryan May, Ph.D.
Software Engineer
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