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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Justin,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These packages can be installed on Macs. Regarding the error for using ecco_v4_py, I wonder if it is caused by an incorrect path. Specifically, the last “ecco_v4_py” in the path is not needed. So the updated code snippet would look like
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background:#1E1E1E"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#C586C0">import</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#D4D4D4"> ecco_v4_py
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#C586C0">as</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#D4D4D4">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ou Wang<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">ecco-support <ecco-support-bounces@mit.edu> on behalf of Justin Campbell <campbelljustin989@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 11:56 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>ecco-support@mit.edu <ecco-support@mit.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] [ecco-support] ECCOv4-py and XGCM Module Import Error Concern<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello support group, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My name is Justin Campbell; I have recently begun an appointment as a research engineering associate with the University of Texas at Austin's Oden Institute for Computational Sciences. I'm reaching out with regards to errors that I'm encountering
in importing both the ecco_v4_py and xgcm modules. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1) ecco_v4_py<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To install this package, I pulled an updated version of the package from the repository and cloned into the project using "<code><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Monaco">git clone
<a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https:/github.com/ECCO-GROUP/ECCOv4-py.git__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!YtNhp3ONaYA1pCfmmhm_KBVZm8uoiQfKkIrDVGibOdRneTNljVtIEG1kko66MLNCWo8$" target="_blank">
https://github.com/ECCO-GROUP/ECCOv4-py.git</a> ".Then, I used the following snippet to tell the python interpreter where to find the package files and import into the environment:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background:#1E1E1E"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#4EC9B0">sys</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#D4D4D4">.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#9CDCFE">path</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#D4D4D4">.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#DCDCAA">append</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#D4D4D4">(</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#CE9178">'/Users/jcam98/Desktop/Employment/Employment_Categories/Research/Data_Science/Computational_Research_in_Ice_and_Ocean_Systems/git_repos/ecco_v4_py/ECCOv4-py/ecco_v4_py'</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#D4D4D4">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background:#1E1E1E"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#C586C0">import</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:#D4D4D4"> ecco_v4_py
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<p class="MsoNormal">When running this code, I receive an extended traceback error as shown in the first attachment "traceback_error_1". <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2) xgcm<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In turn, I installed the xgcm module using the following code<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and I received a very similar traceback error as shown in "traceback_error_2.png". Now, it is important to note that I am running this code on a MacOS X operating system. Is it necessary to install these packages and execute code using
these packages on a Linux OS such as Debian or Ubuntu? Please advise. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best Regards, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Justin Campbell<o:p></o:p></p>
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