==================== CSDMS Standard Names

Python utilities for working with CSDMS standard names.

Install

easy_install CmtStandardNames

Examples

snscrape

Scrape names for URLs that are known to contain standard names and put them in a text file with one names per line.

> snscrape http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/CSN_Quantity_Templates \
           http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/CSN_Object_Templates \
           http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/CSN_Operation_Templates \
          > scraped.txt

snbuild

Build a database of standard names, object, quantities, operators from a text file that contains a list of full names. The database is a simple YAML file.

> snbuild scraped.txt > names.yaml

sndump

Dump a standard-names database (YAML) file to a given format. The following will dump full names (-n), operators (-o), quantities (-q), and operators (-op). The output format will be as MediaWiki markdown (other options are plain, txt, and yaml).

> sndump -n -o -q -op --format=wiki names.yaml > names.wiki

Putting it all together

Since each of these commands can read from stdin and print to stdout, they can be used in a chain like,

> URLS="http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/CSN_Quantity_Templates \
        http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/CSN_Object_Templates \
        http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/CSN_Operation_Templates \
        http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/CSN_Examples"
> snscrape $URLS | snbuild - | sndump - -n -o -q -op --format=wiki