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With ecCodes 2.13.0, there is a new Python3 interface based on CFFI (rather than SWIG). This interface is separated into its own package which is available on PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/eccodes-python)
Thanks to B-Open for their contribution.
Note: For Python2 there is no change, we are still using SWIG and the interface is bundled in the ecCodes tarball.
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