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export METVIEW_PYTHON_START_CMD=/path/to/my/metview_build/bin/metview

Running on a busy machine?

When you import metview, the Metview startup script is run in order to set up the working environment. Usually this is pretty much instant, but on very heavily loaded machines, it may take a few seconds. There is a default timeout of 8 seconds, but this can be increased if needed, by setting the following environment variable, to, for example, 15 seconds:

export METVIEW_PYTHON_START_TIMEOUT=15

Further reading

For a quick start, check out some of the examples in the Gallery. They all have Python code, and each contains a tarball containing its code and data.

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