Dealing with station ID as string

[belasi01]

This is not a critical issue, but often station names are in alphanumeric or string format, not always numeric. The current version only deals with station as numeric values, yielding the following error:

File "/Users/simonbelanger/PycharmProjects/HyperCP/Source/ProcessL1aqc.py", line 799, in processL1aqc
ancGroup.datasets["STATION"].data = np.array(station, dtype=[('NONE', '<f8')])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'BedfordBassin'

It would be nice if HyperCP can deal with that.

Or is there another way to avoid this error?

Simon

[oceancolorcoder]

Fair question. May be a ticklish work-around. We will take it up. Suggest that in the meantime you translate station names into number.