pyESMF

This is an unofficial packaging of the ESMF Python interface that is compatible with pip and with virtual environments. Currently, ESMPy only supports a manual installation or a conda-forge installation.

how it works

Because the python bindings require a ESMF compilation, this package automates that using a conan-based installation of ESMF and then packages the ESMF binaries into the virtual environment. Thus, different versions of ESMF can be installed into seperate virtual environments.

note: Currently, only gfortran is supported.

install

This will install the current stable release using ESMF 8.0.1

pip install pyESMF

This package uses a package-version e.g., <ESMF-version>.<package-version> so specific versions can be installed as

pip install pyESMF==8.0.1.3

beta version

The beta snapshots of ESMF 8.1.0 are available using

pip install --pre pyESMF

use

$ python

import ESMF

notes

As this relies on a conan build, once the build artifacts are available, pyESMF can be installed into multiple virtual environments without required a ESMF build

why is there no bdist?

On Linux it is because this links against a non PEP0513

However, even on macos, the post processing step in install to correctly patch a python file needed to identify required .mk file are not run with the bdist causing the import to fail.