opengrads-devel

[Arlindo da S. <da...@al...>]

Hi,

   I am not sure if any of you are into Python, but I have a new version of
PyGrADS that now, after a week of frustrating debugging with Mike
Bosilovich, seems to work reliably on win32. For all of this you need the
latest Win32 GrADS using the installer (.exe), not the ZIP file:

 http://opengrads.org/pre-rel/win32/grads-1.9.0-rc1.win32_superpack.exe

Here are your options:

1) If you have no Python whatsoever installed on your Windows box and would
like to give it a try, then you may want to start with the PyGrADS
win32_superpack:

  http://opengrads.org/pre-rel/win32/pygrads-1.0.8.win32_superpack.exe

This has all you need.

2) Now, if you have Python 2.5 already installed on your windows box, you
can install  "PyGrADS only" with this:

   http://opengrads.org/pre-rel/win32/pygrads-1.0.8.win32.exe

You willl have the download the dependencies individually; see the wiki:

   http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Python_Interface_to_GrADS

Or else, you can use the superpack in 1) and only install the dependencies
you need. Notice that the superpack is specific for Python 2.5.

*Important:*  If you install "*basemaps*" be sure to install "*httplib2*",
also included in the superpack.

3)  Or else, get the tarball and do a standard python install.

  http://opengrads.org/pre-rel/win32/pygrads-1.0.8.tar.gz

Note that PyGrADS is 100% pure Python, so no compilation is necessary.
Again, you will need
the dependencies for full functionality, though. See the Wiki.

4) If you would like to try some examples, download the tarball in 3) [no
need to install it if have already done 1) or 2)], then open a cmd.exewindow nd

cd \some\path\pygrads-1.0.8\examples
c:\python25\python ganum_examples.py
c:\python25\python galab_examples.py
etc

and take a look at the output PNG files. As Mike Bosilovich reports, you can
also open the "examples" folder with the Windows Explorer and click on
"galab_examples" to run it --- I am too much of a command liner for that
:-).

  Let me know of any problems if you have a chance to try this out. I am
planning to post it on sf.net early in the week after I have a chance to
touch up the wiki documentation. And that I'll be glad to fold up my old and
slow Windows laptop and go back to my Mac :-).

   Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
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