pythonera5

Printing data as a 4 column table also error


I want to ask something. I'm trying to run the code shown below. But line 40, in

time_dim, lat_dim, lon_dim = t2m.get_dims ()

I get the error

ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 3). 

How can I solve this. Can you help me please?

My code is below:

import cdsapi
import netCDF4
from netCDF4 import num2date
import numpy as np
import os
import pandas as pd
 
# Retrieve data and store as netCDF4 file
c = cdsapi.Client()
file_location = 'r"C:\Users\A\Desktop\download.nc"'
c.retrieve(
    'reanalysis-era5-single-levels',
    {
        'product_type':'reanalysis',
        'variable':'2m_temperature',  # 't2m'
        'year':'2019',
        'month':'06',
        'day':[
            '24','25'
        ],
        'time':[
            '00:00','06:00','12:00',
            '18:00'
        ],
        'format':'netcdf'
    },
    file_location)
 
# Open netCDF4 file
f = netCDF4.Dataset(file_location)
 
# Extract variable
t2m = f.variables['t2m']
 
# Get dimensions assuming 3D: time, latitude, longitude
time_dim, lat_dim, lon_dim = t2m.get_dims()
time_var = f.variables[time_dim.name]
times = num2date(time_var[:], time_var.units)
latitudes = f.variables[lat_dim.name][:]
longitudes = f.variables[lon_dim.name][:]
 
output_dir = './'

Solution

  • Basically, you are trying to assign the output of t2m.get_dims() into 3 variables:

    🚫 However, in reality, the call to t2m.get_dims() returns more than 3 values.
    🚫 And that's why you have the error: too many values to unpack


    TROUBLESHOOT:

    ✅ Step 1 > Assign the return value to a list (outputs) > outputs = t2m.get_dims()
    ✅ Step 2 > Print the outputs to see the list elements > print(outputs)
    ✅ Step 3 > Find out which indexes correspond to which value of time_dim, lat_dim, lon_dim
    ✅ Step 4 > Assign the values based on the corresponding index, like: time_dim = outputs[0]