feature request: let user change cache folder

ecmwf / climetlab

Python package for easy access to weather and climate data

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feature request: let user change cache folder #15

Closed aaronspring closed 3 years ago

aaronspring commented 3 years ago

we spoke about this in the S2S AI call on thursday. would it be possible to let the user set the location of the downloaded files? in case that location gets filled up? I thought it was /tmp but I cannot find the data there. I understand that the filesnames are hashed. its just that I dont want to spill a location on disk I cannot control.

aaronspring commented 3 years ago

as far as I can see you wrote the downloading and caching in climetlab from scratch: you could also see if you want to build on top of intake and fsspec. my usage example: https://renkulab.io/gitlab/aaron.spring/s2s-ai-competition-bootstrap/-/blob/master/notebooks/ECMWF_intake.ipynb fsspec caching: https://filesystem-spec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features.html#caching-files-locally

b8raoult commented 3 years ago

This already works, see https://climetlab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/settings.html

aaronspring commented 3 years ago

great. thanks @b8raoult