A Python package that wraps some of ECMWF libraries to be used by Python interfaces to ECMWF software.

• Python 3.10 or newer

The snippet of code below should return the path to the ecCodes shared library.

import ecmwflibs
lib = ecmwflibs.find("eccodes")

You can get the versions of libraries:

import ecmwflibs
print(ecmwflibs.versions())
{'eccodes': '2.46.3', 'magics': '4.16.1', 'ecmwflibs': '0.7.1'}

If you get this message on Windows:

DLL load failed while importing _ecmwflibs: The specified module could not be found.

this means that the C++ runtime library is not installed. Please download and install vc_redist.x86.exe or vc_redist.x64.exe from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads.

ecmwflibs comes packaged with some third-party open source libraries which are dependencies of Magics and ecCodes. To display the list of embedded libraries and their copyright notices and/or licenses, please type:

python3 -m ecmwflibs credits