Closed gregstarr closed 3 years ago
Hello, I was trying to read the SWARM level 1 B langmuir probe files (https://swarm-diss.eo.esa.int/#swarm%2FLevel1b%2FLatest_baselines%2FEFIx_LP) and was getting an error. I didn't do a huge amount of investigating, but found that the error was a UnicodeDecodeError which occurred when trying to read the metadata.
Here is a picture of the error:
I am proposing the change in this PR because I think even if there are parts of the file that can't be read, the user would still want to read as much as possible. I noticed that when I paused at the error, all the actual numerical data had been loaded already, I was just missing the metadata. With the changes in this PR, I was able to read the file, pictured below:
Hi @gregstarr! Thanks for reporting an issue and especially for putting forward a fix.
Can you update the pull to target the develop branch?
I'm a bit tied up with the start of the year but I have this down to test out this coming week. Cheers.
Oh, crap I should have done this off of develop, my bad. I'm not sure I want to mess with rebasing. I think I will just make a new PR
see: #28
adding a try/except to
_process_return_multi_z_attr
when decoding characters so that when uninterpretable characters are encountered, they are just replaced with some filler character but the user can still access the data.