PyClimate uses old Numeric code

[tammasloughran]

Hi,
UVCDAT includes the pyclimate module that has some functions for doing PCA and CCA that I would like to use. This module is getting a bit old now seeing as though it still uses the old Numeric code via the numpy.oldnumeric module in most of its features. It seems with the latest release of numpy support for numpy.oldnumeric has been dropped which means that importing most of the pyclimate modules results in:
ImportError: No module named oldnumeric.

Cheers

[aashish24]

Thanks for the report. Added it for 2.1

[tammasloughran]

Doesnt seem like there's any online repository for this and the original authors havn't made any updates in 6 years. So I made one and made changes to it.
https://github.com/tammasloughran/PyClimateUpdate
I removed all references to numpy.oldnumeric and changed all the functions and attribute names to the equivalents in the newest numpy. I also removed Scientific because its also dependant on numpy.oldnumeric, besides, Scientific it isnt even used in it anyway appart from its netcdf function.
It compiles and seems to work but I havn't had any chance to fully test it and validate results from it.

[doutriaux1]

Wow! thank you so much @tammasloughran this is really helpful, I will test and make sure we integrate this into our next release 2.1

[tammasloughran]

Sorry, this has already been done I think.
http://uv-cdat.llnl.gov/cdat/resources/PyClimate-1.2.3.tar.gz
Looks like uvcdat no longer installs pyclimate anymore so I was was using the old version from http://fisica.ehu.es/pyclimate. Is there any reason why it's not used anymore?

Note PyClimate-1.2.3 still imports Scientific.Statistics but doesn't actually use it.

[doutriaux1]

@tammasloughran i think it is still install if you use CDAT_BUILD_MODE=ALL. I will double check though.

[doutriaux1]

@aashish24 I can't seem to be able to trigger the build of pyclimate, assiging this to you.

[doutriaux1]

@aashish24 i think this suffers the same issue as the h5py the cdat_add_package_denedent never triggers it.
see comment sin #1035

[aashish24]

Okay, I will have a look at it.

[durack1]

@doutriaux1 @aashish24 #1071 duplicates this so I think it's a candidate for closure